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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2005
Applicants:
Jun Yuan, Kathleen, GA (US);
Robert J. Pruett, Milledgeville, GA (US);
Larry C. Powell, Wrightsville, GA (US);
Inventors:
Jun Yuan, Kathleen, GA (US);
Robert J. Pruett, Milledgeville, GA (US);
Larry C. Powell, Wrightsville, GA (US);
Assignee:
Imerys Pigments, Inc., Roswell, GA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01B 1/04 (2006.01); C04B 33/04 (2006.01); C09C 1/02 (2006.01); C09C 1/42 (2006.01); C02F 1/70 (2006.01); C01B 17/64 (2006.01); C01B 33/26 (2006.01); C01B 31/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Disclosed herein are a method of reductively bleaching a mineral slurry comprising adding in the mineral slurry an effective amount of a formamidine sulfinic acid (FAS) and an effective amount of a borohydride to reductively bleach the mineral slurry, compositions comprising a mineral slurry, a FAS, and a borohydride, and final products comprising a mineral obtained by the method disclosed herein.