Reducing fines from an agricultural spray dispensed from a nozzle is provided in the disclosed methods. The agricultural spray comprises water, an agricultural composition such as a pesticide, at least one oil emulsion drift reduction adjuvant, and at least one spontaneous emulsion drift reduction adjuvant. The agricultural spray exhibits fewer fine droplets having a diameter less than about 105 ?m, about 150 ?m, and/or about 210 ?m compared to an agricultural spray neither or only one of the oil emulsion drift reduction adjuvant and the spontaneous emulsion drift reduction adjuvant.

The uses of the disclosed copper-cysteamine (Cu-Cy) complex for methods for treating Gram-positive and Gram-negative infections in subjects and for disinfecting a surface are disclosed. In addition, the disclosed Cy-Cy nanoparticles provide Fenton-like reactions in vivo, in vitro and ex vivo.

A process for increasing the wetting rate of hydrophobic media with a wetting composition includes the steps of combining water and a heteric polyol to form the wetting composition, aging the wetting composition for an amount of time sufficient to increase the cloud point of the wetting composition to greater than 23 C., and applying the wetting composition to the hydrophobic media. The heteric polyol has the following formula:

X[Y(CH.sub.2CH.sub.2O).sub.a(CH.sub.2CHCH.sub.3O).sub.bH].sub.c

wherein X is an organic core derived from an initiator having at least two hydroxyl groups; Y is a heteric copolymer comprising at least two different alkyleneoxy units selected from the group of ethyleneoxy units, propyleneoxy units, and butyleneoxy units; the subscripts a and b are independently zero or a positive integer and at least one of a or b must be a positive integer; and the subscript c is an integer of two or greater.

A process for increasing the wetting rate of hydrophobic media with a wetting composition includes the steps of combining water and a heteric polyol to form the wetting composition, aging the wetting composition for an amount of time sufficient to increase the cloud point of the wetting composition to greater than 23 C., and applying the wetting composition to the hydrophobic media. The heteric polyol has the following formula:

X[Y(CH.sub.2CH.sub.2O).sub.a(CH.sub.2CHCH.sub.3O).sub.bH].sub.c

wherein X is an organic core derived from an initiator having at least two hydroxyl groups; Y is a heteric copolymer comprising at least two different alkyleneoxy units selected from the group of ethyleneoxy units, propyleneoxy units, and butyleneoxy units; the subscripts a and b are independently zero or a positive integer and at least one of a or b must be a positive integer; and the subscript c is an integer of two or greater.

Reducing fines from an agricultural spray dispensed from a nozzle is provided in the disclosed methods. The agricultural spray comprises water, an agricultural composition such as a pesticide, at least one oil emulsion drift reduction adjuvant, and at least one spontaneous emulsion drift reduction adjuvant. The agricultural spray exhibits fewer fine droplets having a diameter less than about 105 m, about 150 m, and/or about 210 m compared to an agricultural spray neither or only one of the oil emulsion drift reduction adjuvant and the spontaneous emulsion drift reduction adjuvant.

Reducing fines from an agricultural spray dispensed from a nozzle is provided in the disclosed methods. The agricultural spray comprises water, an agricultural composition such as a pesticide, at least one oil emulsion drift reduction adjuvant, and at least one spontaneous emulsion drift reduction adjuvant. The agricultural spray exhibits fewer fine droplets having a diameter less than about 105 m, about 150 m, and/or about 210 m compared to an agricultural spray neither or only one of the oil emulsion drift reduction adjuvant and the spontaneous emulsion drift reduction adjuvant.

The present disclosure relates to a method of sequestering carbon dioxide which comprises the steps of capturing carbon dioxide from an industrial gaseous waste stream and/or the atmosphere, converting a CO.sub.2 from the CO.sub.2 gas stream into a (COOH).sub.2 and combining the (COOH).sub.2, a mono-alcohol (X-OH), preferably CH.sub.3CH.sub.2OH, and a first acid catalyst comprising a H.sub.2SO.sub.4 at a temperature ranging from about 80? C. to about 100? C. and under atmospheric pressure to produce an ester comprising a (COOX).sub.2 and preferably (COOEt).sub.2; and the ester obtained is reacted with a polyol, preferably glycerine to form a polyester, preferably the polyester is a hydrogel. The present disclosure further relates to the use of a hydrogel which is obtainable by said method.

The present disclosure relates to a method of sequestering carbon dioxide which comprises the steps of capturing carbon dioxide from an industrial gaseous waste stream and/or the atmosphere, converting a CO.sub.2 from the CO.sub.2 gas stream into a (COOH).sub.2 and combining the (COOH).sub.2, a mono-alcohol (X-OH), preferably CH.sub.3CH.sub.2OH, and a first acid catalyst comprising a H.sub.2SO.sub.4 at a temperature ranging from about 80? C. to about 100? C. and under atmospheric pressure to produce an ester comprising a (COOX).sub.2 and preferably (COOEt).sub.2; and the ester obtained is reacted with a polyol, preferably glycerine to form a polyester, preferably the polyester is a hydrogel. The present disclosure further relates to the use of a hydrogel which is obtainable by said method.

A mulch pellet for use in a soil region comprising a plurality of fibers bound together into a rigid pellet body having fertilizing qualities and carrying a polymer outer coating on an outwardly facing surface and further carrying a botanical seed adhered to the pellet body by the polymer outer coating, the pellet body having sufficient mass to provide for targeted distribution onto select soil regions.

The present invention relates to a method for producing polymers that are suitable for absorbing and storing aqueous liquids, and to polymers that can be obtained by this method. This invention further related to the use of such polymers. The method comprises the following steps: i. crosslinking free-radical polymerization of a monomer composition M comprising a) at least one monomer A having an ethylenic double bond and at least one neutralizable acid group or a group hydrolyzable to a neutralizable acid group, b) optionally one or more comonomers B which are different than the monomers A and have one ethylenic double bond, and c) 0.05 to 10% by weight, based on the total amount of monomers A and B, of at least one crosslinker C, in the presence of at least one polysaccharide-comprising substance S, in an aqueous liquid, where the weight ratio of the monomer composition M to the substance S is in the range from 9:1 to 1:9; and ii. at least partial neutralization of the acid groups and/or hydrolysis of the groups hydrolyzable to neutralizable acid groups in the polymer obtained in step i.;
wherein the polymerization and/or the neutralization is performed in the presence of urea.