A core electric wire for a multicore cable. The core electric wire includes a conductor composed of a plurality of elemental wires twisted together and an insulating layer coating a circumference of the conductor. The insulating layer includes a first component and a second component, the first component being high density polyethylene, the second component being at least one selected from the group consisting of a copolymer of ethylene and an ?-olefin having a carbonyl group, and very-low density polyethylene. The first component has a content ratio of 10% by mass or more and 60% by mass or less to a total content of the polyethylene-based resin, and the second component has a content ratio of 20% by mass or more and 80% by mass or less to the total content of the polyethylene-based resin.

A protective film is disposed on a surface of a workpiece has a hardness in a range from 0.0093 GPa to 0.13 GPa. A protective film agent includes a water-soluble resin, a light absorbing agent, a plasticizer, and a solvent in which the water-soluble resin, the light absorbing agent, and the plasticizer are dissolved. The ratio of the mass of the plasticizer to a mass of the water-soluble resin is in a range from 15% to 53%, and a protective film formed from the protective film agent has a hardness in a range from 0.0093 GPa to 0.13 GPa.

A coated polymer film, such as a coated polyester film, is disclosed. In one embodiment, the coated film may be used as a substrate for digital printing. In one embodiment, the coating contains an anionic anti-static agent comprising a sulphonated copolyester resin. In an alternative embodiment, the coating contains an anti-static agent comprising an organometallic, such as an organo zirconate, in combination with metal oxide particles. The metal oxide particles may comprise nanoparticles. In one embodiment, the coating can further contain a print enhancing agent and an adhesion promoter.

A coated polymer film, such as a coated polyester film, is disclosed. In one embodiment, the coated film may be used as a substrate for digital printing. In one embodiment, the coating contains an anionic anti-static agent comprising a sulphonated copolyester resin. In an alternative embodiment, the coating contains an anti-static agent comprising an organometallic, such as an organo zirconate, in combination with metal oxide particles. The metal oxide particles may comprise nanoparticles. In one embodiment, the coating can further contain a print enhancing agent and an adhesion promoter.

The invention relates to an aqueous coating composition, a process for preparing the same, and a coated article. The aqueous coating composition comprises (a) a polymer A comprising units derived from an alpha-olefin and one or more comonomers selected from the group of methacrylates, acrylates, methacrylic acid, acrylic acid, maleates, maleic acid, maleic anhydride, and salts thereof; (b) a polymer B comprising units derived from one or more monomers selected from the group of methacrylates, acrylates, methacrylic acid, acrylic acid, maleates, maleic acid, maleic anhydride, and salts thereof; (c) at least one pigment in an amount in the range of 0.1 to 30 wt. %, based on the total dry weight of the coating composition, the at least one pigment being selected from the group consisting of clay minerals, silicates, brucite, magnesium carbonate, barite, perlite, satin white, gypsum, aluminum oxide, titanium dioxide, surface-reacted calcium carbonates, and mixtures thereof; (d) optionally wax.

The resin composition contains at least one resin (S) selected from the group consisting of an ethylene??-olefin copolymer (A) including a structural unit derived from an ?-olefin having 3 or more carbon atoms and satisfying the following requirements (a-1) to (a-3), and an acid-modified product (B) of the ethylene??-olefin copolymer (A): (a-1) a kinematic viscosity at 100? C. is 10 to 5,000 mm.sup.2/s, (a-2) a content rate of a structural unit derived from an ?-olefin having 3 or more carbon atoms is 60 to 85 mol %, and (a-3) a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) is 2.5 or less.

In the present disclosure, a joint compound composition is disclosed. The joint compound composition comprises water, a cementitious filler, a mineral filler, and an elastomer wherein the joint compound composition exhibits a viscosity of 50 poise or less when measured at a temperature of 23? C. and shear rate of 100 s.sup.?1 and/or a yield stress of 1,500 dynes/cm.sup.2 or less. The present disclosure is also directed to a method of making a joint compound composition. The method comprises combining and mixing water, a cementitious filler, a mineral filler, and an aqueous dispersion including an elastomer.

A thermally expandable composition, including at least one polymer, cross-linkable by peroxide, at least one peroxide, preferably at least one antioxidant, at least one chemical blowing agent, and at least one activator, wherein the activator includes at least one compound selected from formula (I),

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wherein radicals R.sup.1 and R.sup.4 represent hydrogen atoms or monovalent alkyl radicals with 1 to 10 carbon atoms which optionally include oxygen atoms; R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 represent hydrogen atoms or monovalent alkyl radicals with 1 to 10 carbon atoms which optionally include oxygen atoms, nitrogen atoms, and/or aromatic moieties or R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 together form a divalent alkyl radical with 1 to 10 carbon atoms which optionally includes oxygen atoms, nitrogen atoms or aromatic moieties. The composition shows excellent properties in terms of expansion stability over a wide temperature range, can be expanded at temperatures below 150 C. and is suitable for baffle and/or reinforcement elements.

Disposable article that include fibers formed from compositions comprising thermoplastic polymers and waxes are disclosed, where the wax is dispersed throughout the thermoplastic polymer.

Disposable article that include fibers formed from compositions comprising thermoplastic polymers and waxes are disclosed, where the wax is dispersed throughout the thermoplastic polymer.