Process for decomposing adducts

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A PROCESS FOR DECOMPOSING AN ADDUCT SELECTED FROM THE CLASS CONSISTING OF AN ADDUCT FORMED BY REACTING UREA WITH A STRAIGHT CARBON ATOM CHAIN ORGANIC COMPOUND SELECTED FROM THE GROUP OF STRAIGHT CARBON ATOM CHAIN HYDROCARBONS, ALCOHOLS AND AMINES HAVING AT LEAST SIX CARBON ATOMS PER MOLECULE AND A BOILING POINT BELOW THE MELTING POINT OF SAID UREA AND AN ADDUCT FORMED BY REACTING THIOUREA WITH A BRANCHED CARBON ATOM CHAIN ORGANIC COMPOUND SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF BRANCHED CARBON ATOM CHAIN HYDROCARBONS, ALCOHOLS AND AMINES HAVING AT LEAST SIX CARBON ATOMS AND HAVING A BOILING POINT BELOW THE MELTING POINT OF SAID THIOUREA WHICH COMPRISES SUSPENDING SAID ADDUCT IN AN INERT PREHEATED CARRIER GAS TO HEAT SAID ADDUCT TO A TEMPERATURE IMMEDIATELY BELOW THE TEMPERATURE AT WHICH IT BEGINS TO DECOMPOSE PASSING SAID SUSPENSION OF SAID ADDUCT THROUGH A DECOMPOSITION ZONE AT A CARRIER GAS VELOCITY SUCH THAT SAID CARRIER GAS IS PASSED THROUGH SAID ZONE AT A VELOCITY GREATER THAN THAT OF SAID ADDUCT, INJECTING INTO SAID ZONE AT A POINT INTERMEDIATE ITS END AN AUXILIARY CARRIER GAS PREHEATED TO A TEMPERATURE SUFFICIENTLY HIGH TO DECOMPOSE SAID ADDUCT AND TO VAPORIZE THE LIBERATED ORGANIC COMPOUND TO THEREBY INCREASE THE CARRIER GAS VELOCITY THROUGH SAID ZONE ABOVE SAID POINT WHERE SAID AUXILIARY CARRIER GAS IS INJECTED, REMOVING A RESULTANT SUSPENSION OF LIBERATED UREA OR THIOUREA FROM SAID ZONE, AND SEPARATING LAST-SAID SUSPENSION TO RECOVER SAID UREA OR THIOUREA, LIBERATED ORGANIC COMPOUND AND SAID CARRIER GAS.