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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 1982
Filed:
Nov. 20, 1981
Margarete Grunert, Kaarst, DE;
Holger Tesmann, Dusseldorf, DE;
Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien, Dusseldorf-Holthausen, DE;
Abstract
This invention relates to fertilizer compositions containing alkylene oxide anticaking agents. More particularly, this invention relates to a method of decreasing the caking during storage in a hygroscopic salt or fertilizer which normally cakes on storage, which comprises uniformly admixing with said hygroscopic salt or fertilizer an effective amount of an anticaking agent consisting of one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of adducts of from 6 to 15 mols of ethylene oxide and/or propylene oxide onto 1 mol of a .beta.-hydroxyalkyl-diethanolamine of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is an alkyl of from 1 to 18 carbon atoms and R.sup.2 is hydrogen or alkyl of from 1 to 16 carbon atoms, the sum of the carbon atoms in R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 being from 8 to 18.