A material that facilitates dissipation of heat is provided and includes hexagonal boron nitride and alumina.

A powder is disclosed having a coarse fraction representing more than 60% and less than 85% of the powder, as a weight percentage on the basis of the oxides, and that is constituted of particles having a size greater than or equal to 50 m, referred to as coarse particles, the powder comprising at least 5% of coated grains having a size greater than or equal to 50 m, as a weight percentage on the basis of the oxides of the powder, and a fine fraction, forming the balance to 100% as a weight percentage on the basis of the oxides, constituted of particles having a size of less than 50 m, referred to as matrix particles. The powder can be applied in combustion chambers in which the temperature may reach 1400 C.

An abrasive article includes a polycrystalline material comprising abrasive grains and a filler material selected from the group of materials consisting of tungstate, molybdate, vanadate, and a combination thereof. Earth-boring tools comprise a bit body and a cutting element carried by the bit body. The cutting element comprises a polycrystalline material comprising abrasive grains, a catalyst material, and a filler material selected from the group of materials consisting of tungstate, molybdate, vanadate, and a combination thereof

A method of manufacturing polycrystalline abrasive elements consisting of micron, sub-micron or nano-sized ultrahard abrasives dispersed in micron, sub-micron or nano-sized matrix materials. A plurality of ultrahard abrasive particles having vitreophilic surfaces are coated with a matrix precursor material and then treated to render them suitable for sintering. The matrix precursor material can be converted to an oxide, nitride, carbide, oxynitride, oxycarbide, or carbonitride, or an elemental form thereof. The coated ultrahard abrasive particles are consolidated and sintered at a pressure and temperature at which they are crystallographically or thermodynamically stable.

The invention relates to method of depositing refractory metal carbide onto part of a surface of a body comprising diamond, the method including adhering directly onto part of the surface a refractory precursor material comprising a compound including oxygen and at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Ti, V, Cr, Zr, Nb, Mo, Hf, Ta and W; the refractory precursor material being reducible in the presence of carbon on the application of heat to form at least one compound comprising metal carbide or mixed metal carbide; and reducing the refractory precursor material by the application of heat. The invention further relates to a body comprising diamond, part of the surface of the body having directly adhered thereto a metal carbide and part of the surface of the body having directly adhered thereto a metallic material and the content of diamond being greater than 80 volume percent of a volume of the body.

A method of manufacturing a multilayer ceramic electronic component includes: preparing a dielectric magnetic composition including base material powder particles including BaTi.sub.2O.sub.5 or (Ba.sub.(1-x)Ca.sub.x)Ti.sub.2O.sub.5 (0x0.1), the base material powder particles having surfaces coated with one or more of Mg, Mn, V, Ba, Si, Al and a rare earth metal; preparing ceramic green sheets using dielectric slurry including the dielectric magnetic composition; applying an internal electrode paste to the ceramic green sheets; preparing a green sheet laminate by stacking the ceramic green sheets to which the internal electrode paste is applied; and preparing a ceramic body including dielectric layers and a plurality of first and second internal electrodes arranged to face each other with each of the dielectric layers interposed therebetween by sintering the green sheet laminate.

A dielectric ceramic composition for multi-layer ceramic capacitor for use in extreme environments is formed by mixing a main compos it ion and a composite oxide for low-temperature sintering, where the main composition includes 96.0 to 99.0 wt. % of BaTiO.sub.3 and 1.0 to 4.0 wt. % of Nb.sub.2O.sub.5 and Co.sub.3O.sub.4 as an additive. The main composition is formed by per forming a heat treatment for synthesis to form a core-shell structure having the BaTiO.sub.3 as a core and the Nb.sub.2O.sub.5 and Co.sub.3O.sub.4 covering the sur face of the BaTiO.sub.3. The composite oxide for low-temperature sintering is at least one selected from BaV.sub.2O.sub.6, Ba.sub.3V.sub.4O.sub.13 and Ba.sub.4V.sub.2O.sub.9.