A polycarbonate resin composition for light guides which has excellent light guiding properties and flame retardancy, a light guide and a surface light source body. The light guide is formed from a resin composition which comprises (A) 100 parts by weight of a polycarbonate resin (component A) and (B) 0.001 to 0.1 part by weight of a metal salt-based compound (component B).

A polycarbonate resin composition for light guides which has excellent light guiding properties and flame retardancy, a light guide and a surface light source body. The light guide is formed from a resin composition which comprises (A) 100 parts by weight of a polycarbonate resin (component A) and (B) 0.001 to 0.1 part by weight of a metal salt-based compound (component B).

The invention relates to the use of organic oxyimide salts as flame retardants for plastics and to a corresponding flame retardant plastic composition. The invention also relates to a method for producing said type of plastic composition or a moulded part produced therefrom, a moulding compound, a moulded part, paint or a coating.

The invention relates to the use of organic oxyimide salts as flame retardants for plastics and to a corresponding flame retardant plastic composition. The invention also relates to a method for producing said type of plastic composition or a moulded part produced therefrom, a moulding compound, a moulded part, paint or a coating.

Provided are a one-pack addition curable silicone composition compatible with both a good long-term storage property at room temperature under conditions whereby air is blocked to a constant level and the advance of an addition curing reaction at room temperature by being applied in a thin film of 1500 μm or less and exposed to air, which could not be obtained by conventional curable heat-dissipating grease, and a method for storing the same, and a method for curing this composition. A one-pack addition curable silicone composition having as essential ingredients: (A) organopolysiloxane having silicon-atom-bonded aliphatic unsaturated hydrocarbon groups and a specific kinematic viscosity; (B) one or more thermally conductive fillers selected from metals, metal oxides, metal hydroxides, metal nitrides, metal carbides, and allotropes of carbon; (C) organohydrogenpolysiloxane; and (D) a platinum group metal complex having an organic phosphorus compound represented by formula (1)

R.sup.1.sub.x—P—(OR.sup.1).sub.3-x   (1)

(R.sup.1 is a monovalent hydrocarbon group, x is 0-3) as a ligand.

Provided are a one-pack addition curable silicone composition compatible with both a good long-term storage property at room temperature under conditions whereby air is blocked to a constant level and the advance of an addition curing reaction at room temperature by being applied in a thin film of 1500 μm or less and exposed to air, which could not be obtained by conventional curable heat-dissipating grease, and a method for storing the same, and a method for curing this composition. A one-pack addition curable silicone composition having as essential ingredients: (A) organopolysiloxane having silicon-atom-bonded aliphatic unsaturated hydrocarbon groups and a specific kinematic viscosity; (B) one or more thermally conductive fillers selected from metals, metal oxides, metal hydroxides, metal nitrides, metal carbides, and allotropes of carbon; (C) organohydrogenpolysiloxane; and (D) a platinum group metal complex having an organic phosphorus compound represented by formula (1)

R.sup.1.sub.x—P—(OR.sup.1).sub.3-x   (1)

(R.sup.1 is a monovalent hydrocarbon group, x is 0-3) as a ligand.

The invention relates to a flame retardant mixture for thermoplastic polymers, comprising as component A) 30% to 55% by weight of a zinc salt of a di-alkylphosphinic acid of the formula (I) in which R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are the same or different and are C.sub.1-C.sub.18-alkyl linear, branched or cyclic, C.sub.6-C.sub.18-aryl, C.sub.7-C.sub.18-arylalkyl and/or C.sub.7-C.sub.18-alkylaryl, and M is zinc and m=1 to 2, as component B) 45% to 70% by weight of one or more reaction products of melamine with polyphosphoric acids and/or condensed melamine with polyphosphoric acids, as component C) 0% to 10% of at least one further inorganic flame retardant which is zinc borate, zinc stannate, zinc phosphate, zinc pyrophosphate, magnesium borate and/or calcium stannate, as component D) 0% to 20% by weight of one or more condensation products of melamine, as component E) 0% to 2% by weight of at least one phosphite or phosphinite or mixtures thereof and as component F) 0% to 2% by weight of at least one ester and/or salt of long chain aliphatic carboxylic acids (fatty acids) typically having chain lengths of C.sub.14 to C.sub.40, where the sum total of the components is always 100% by weight.

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An insulating resin composition that allows a reduction in the amount of spatial electric charges accumulated in an insulating layer, whereby dielectric breakdown is less likely to occur. This insulating resin composition 1 contains at least an antioxidant and a base resin including an unmodified polyolefin resin and a modified polyolefin resin modified by a molecule having a polar group. The modified polyolefin resin is modified by at least one selected from unsaturated dicarboxylic anhydride derivatives, unsaturated dicarboxylic anhydrides, and unsaturated dicarboxylic acids, which are each a molecule having a polar group. The base resin has a so-called island-in-sea structure in which a second phase 12 containing the modified polyolefin resin is present in a first phase 11 containing the unmodified polyolefin resin. The second phase has an average diameter of 2 μm or less.

The present invention relates to a composition comprising one or more (co)polymers and one or more phosphonite compounds that contain cardanol moieties. Moreover, the present invention also refers to the use of the phosphonite compounds as process stabilizers, in particular refers to the use of such compounds for stabilizing and/or reducing the Yellowness Index of a (co)polymer composition exposed to heat and/or mechanical stress.

The present invention relates to a composition comprising one or more (co)polymers and one or more phosphonite compounds that contain cardanol moieties. Moreover, the present invention also refers to the use of the phosphonite compounds as process stabilizers, in particular refers to the use of such compounds for stabilizing and/or reducing the Yellowness Index of a (co)polymer composition exposed to heat and/or mechanical stress.