Disclosed herein is a process for making a marble appearing casting having superior depth characteristics by placing a low-density polymerizable resin into a mold to at least partially cover the bottom thereof placing a high-density polymerizable resin on top of the low-density resin to completely cover the low-density resin, allowing the low-density resin to float up through the high-density resin as both resins polymerize and solidify.

Disclosed is a draining composition for a light-traffic road pavement, including: (a) a first granular layer having a percentage of communicating voids ranging 25-50%, including a binder and a granular mixture of which at least 80% by weight, relative to the total weight of the granular mixture, has a granular size distribution range 4-20 mm, the layer having a thickness suitable for the pavement's mechanical strength; (b) a second granular layer having main lower and upper surfaces, the main lower surface resting directly on the first granular matrix and the main upper surface in direct contact with the air, the second granular layer being a granular mixture not bound by a binder and of which at least 80% by weight, relative to the total weight of the granular mixture, has a granular size distribution range 2-14 mm, the second granular layer having a thickness appropriate for water accumulation.

A honeycomb structure has a plurality of cells formed by a plurality of partition walls. The partition walls are formed of a porous material composed predominantly of cordierite. Each partition wall includes surface layer portions having a porosity of 50% or more and an inside portion having a porosity of 50% or more, the surface layer portions being portions ranging respectively from opposite surfaces to a depth corresponding to 25% of the thickness of the partition wall, and the inside portion being the other portion. The surface layer portions and the inside portion both include pores having axial pore widths of less than 30 μm and pores having axial pore widths of 30 μm or more. A mean axial pore width in the surface layer portions is smaller than a mean axial pore width in the inside portion.

A heat-resistant container according to the present disclosure includes a first wall portion constituting a sidewall and a second wall portion constituting an upper wall or bottom wall. The first wall portion and the second wall portion are made of a ceramic. The first wall portion has a large number of pores therein. In cross sections of the first wall portion, a porosity Pr1 is smaller than a porosity Pr2, where Pr1 is a porosity in a cross section of the first wall portion orthogonal to a wall surface of the first wall portion and parallel to a height direction of the first wall portion, and Pr2 is a porosity in a cross section of the first wall portion orthogonal to the wall surface of the first wall portion and parallel to a width direction of the first wall portion.

Materials systems resistant to penetration of molten salts and may be present within a molten-salt-facing wall of a device for containing a molten salt bath at an elevated temperature, and molten-salt-facing walls and devices formed by such materials systems. A first layer of such a system defines an outer surface for direct contact with the molten salt bath, and resists erosion and corrosion and is penetrable by the molten salt at the elevated temperature. A second layer is located adjacent to the first layer and exhibits little or no wetting by the molten salt so that at least a portion of a thickness of the second layer is not penetrable by the molten salt. A third layer is located adjacent to the second layer and is porous and exhibits a low thermal conductivity at the elevated temperature.

Disclosed herein is a process for making a marble appearing casting having superior depth characteristics by placing a low-density polymerizable resin into a mold to at least partially cover the bottom thereof placing a high-density polymerizable resin on top of the low-density resin to completely cover the low-density resin, allowing the low-density resin to float up through the high-density resin as both resins polymerize and solidify.

Disclosed herein is a process for making a marble appearing casting having superior depth characteristics by placing a low-density polymerizable resin into a mold to at least partially cover the bottom thereof placing a high-density polymerizable resin on top of the low-density resin to completely cover the low-density resin, allowing the low-density resin to float up through the high-density resin as both resins polymerize and solidify.

A method for making an article comprising silicon carbide. The method includes producing an article including silicon carbide via additive manufacturing. The method further includes heating via at least one laser beam in a site-selective and locally limited manner a surface of the article so as to cause at least one of ablation and chemical modification of the surface.

A sanitary article, which has a support body and an outer coating which is applied to the support body at least in certain portions and forms the outer side of the sanitary article, the support body being of a first composite material of a filled polymeric binder matrix containing at least one filler in the form of hollow glass beads and the outer coating being of a second composite material of a polymeric binder matrix, which is filled with at least one filler and does not contain any hollow glass beads.

A pillar-shaped honeycomb structure body of a honeycomb structure includes a circumferential cell structure, a central cell structure and a boundary wall therebetween. On a surface orthogonal to the cells there are a circumferential reinforcing region having the partition wall thicker than a basic partition wall thickness in the circumferential cell structure and existing outside a range of a distance from a centroid of the surface; and at least one of a first boundary reinforcing region having the partition wall thicker than the basic partition wall thickness and existing in a range of a distance from the centroid within a range of the circumferential cell structure and a second boundary reinforcing region having the partition wall thicker than a basic partition wall thickness in the central cell structure and existing outside of a range of a distance from the centroid within a range of the central cell structure.