Provided are: a rubber composition for treads which contains a diene rubber in the rubber component and can simultaneously achieve blowing resistance during dry running, wet grip performance and abrasion resistance; and a pneumatic tire including a tread formed from the rubber composition for treads. The rubber composition contains: a diene rubber including styrene-butadiene rubber; zinc dithiophosphate; an inorganic filler including at least one selected from the group consisting of: a compound of the formula: mM.xSiO.sub.y.zH.sub.2O wherein M represents at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Al, Mg, Ti, Ca, and Zr, or an oxide or hydroxide of the metal, m represents an integer of 1-5, x represents an integer of 0-10, y represents an integer of 2-5, and z represents an integer of 0-10; magnesium sulfate; and silicon carbide, and having a BET value of 5-120 m.sup.2/g and a linseed oil absorption of 30-80 mL/100 g; and sulfur, wherein, per 100 parts by mass of the diene rubber, there are 0.2-15 parts by mass of the zinc dithiophosphate, 1-70 parts by mass of the inorganic filler, and less than 2.5 parts by mass of zinc oxide.

A highly thermally conductive composition is provided, such composition comprising: (A) An organopolysiloxane composition; (B) a filler treating agent; (C) a thermal stabilizer; and (D) thermally conductive filler mixture, comprising: (D-1) a small-particulate thermally conductive filler having a mean size of up to 1 μm, (D-2) middle-sized filler having a mean size of from 1 to 10 μm, (D-3) large filler having a mean size of larger than 30 μm and comprising at least magnesium oxide.

This cellulose acetate has a total degree of acetyl substitution of 1.75 or more and 2.55 or less, and a degree of acetyl substitution at 2-position or a degree of acetyl substitution at 3-position is 0.7 or less. This cellulose acetate composition includes the cellulose acetate and an additive. The additive is one or more selected from the group consisting of (a) substances of which a pH of a 1 wt. % aqueous solution at 20° C. is 8 or more, (b) substances that dissolve in water at 20° C. in an amount of 2 wt. % or more, and (c) substances that exhibit biodegradability in seawater.

The present invention relates to polymer composition comprising 100 parts by weight of halogen containing polymer, 10 to 70 parts by weight of plasticizer, 2 to 10 parts by weight of stabilizer, 1-15 parts by weight of a layered double hydroxide (LDH) having the formula (I) wherein M and M′ are different and each is at least one metal cation, z=1 or 2; y=3 or 4, 0<x<0.9, b=0 to 10, c=0 to 10, X is an anion, n is the charge on the anion, and a=z(1−x)+xy−2; solvent is organic solvent with a hydrogen bond donor or acceptor function; as well as an article comprising the polymer composition.
[M.sup.z+.sub.1−xM′.sup.y+.sub.x(OH).sub.2].sup.a+(X.sup.n−).sub.a/n.bH.sub.2O.c(solvent)  (I)

A flame retardant, flexible polyvinyl chloride mixture includes a trio of plasticizers and molybdate-based smoke suppressant for use in wire and cable articles.

A flame retardant resin composition comprising: a hydrogenated petroleum resin, being a hydrogenated product of a polymer of an unsaturated hydrocarbon comprising at least one selected from the group consisting of an alicyclic compound having a five-membered ring and an aromatic hydrocarbon compound; a polyolefin; and an inorganic filler.

Disclosed is a flame retardant coating for a textile sheet product, which contains at least one binder or a binder mixture, expandable graphite particles and additionally at least one chemical flame retardant. The grain size of at least 80%, preferably 100%, of the expandable graphite particles is at most 100 μm.

The present disclosure provides a composition. In an embodiment, the composition includes an olefin-based polymer and from 0.15 wt % to 15 wt % of an odor suppressant. The odor suppressant includes (i) from 0.05 wt % to 2 wt % of a metal oxide having a band gap greater than 5.0 electron volts (eV), and (ii) from 0.1 wt % to 13 wt % of an acid copolymer. The ratio of metal oxide to acid copolymer is from 1:20 to 1:1. Weight percents are based on the total weight of the composition.

A curable composition comprising: i) a glycidyl ether of a novolac, comprising or consisting of moieties having the formula (I), wherein —R.sub.a is either always hydrogen or always methyl; —B is either always *—CH2-** or always formula (A); —a fraction of 0.8 to 0.99 of the Y moieties are essentially —O-glycidyl, this fraction being designated as x, and the remainder of the Y moieties, this fraction being designated as (1-x), are divalent bridging spacers of the structure *—O—CH.sub.2—CH(OH)—CH.sub.2—O—** connecting two moieties according to above formula (I); and—n is a number in the range of 0.1 to 3.0; and wherein said novolac glycidyl ether has an epoxy equivalent weight FEW in the range of 160 to 270 g/eq. and the average number of epoxy groups per molecule of novolac glycidyl ether (I), designated as f, is in the range of 2.1 to 5.0; ii) dicyandiamide; and iii) an urea derivative of the formula (II). This composition is stable upon storage at room temperature and fire-retardant. It can be used for preparation of prepregs and in core filling, particularly in the aerospace field.

The resin composition contains: a resin component containing an ethylene-(meth)acrylate ester copolymer and at least one of an ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer or ethylene-acrylate rubber; and a flame retardant, and the resin component is crosslinked. The tensile stress at 19% strain of the resin composition is 2.0 MPa or less, and the resin composition has heat resistance at 150° C. prescribed in JASO D624.