Alkali metal dispersions

Claim 1

A COMPOSITION CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF A DISPERSION OF FINELY DIVIDED ALKALI METAL PARTICLES OF A SIZE NOT EXCEEDING ABOUT 125 MICRONS IN DIAMETER IN AN ORGANIC LIQUID INERT TO SAID METAL AND HAVING A BOILING POINT ABOVE THE MELTING POINT OF SIAD METAL AND CONTAINING 0.001 TO 65% BY WEIGHT OF DISPERSED ALKALI METAL AND AT LEAST 0.05% BUT NOT MORE THAN ABOUT 5% BY WEIGHT, BASED ON THE ALKALI METAL CONTENT OF SAID COMPOSITION, OF A COMPOUND OF THE FORMULA R-0-X IN WHICH THE SUM OF THE CARBON ATOMS PLUS OXYGEN ATOMS IS 5 TO 31, X IS FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF HYDROGEN AND ALKALI METAL AND R CONTAINS NO ELEMENT OTHER THAN HYDROGEN, CARBON AND OXYGEN AND IS SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF: (A) UNSUBSTITUTED, SATURATED AND UNSATURATED, ACYCLIC AND ALICYCLIC, ALIPHATIC RADICALS; (B) SUBSTITUTED, SATURATED AND UNSATURATED ACYCLIC AND ALICYCLIC, ALPHATIC RADICALS IN WHICH EACH SUBSTITUENTS IS AN ALKOXY GROUP HAVING 1 TO 3 CARBONS AND THE TOTAL NUMBER OF SUCH SUBSTITUENTS IS 1 TO 3; (C) UNSUBSTITUTED AROMATIC RADICALS OF THE BENZENE AND NAPHTHALENE SERIES; (D) AROMATIC RADICALS OF THE BENZENE AND NAPHTHALENE SERIES HAVING BUT ONE SUBSTITUENT GROUP WHICH IS AN ALKOXY GROUP OF 1 TO 3 CARBONS; AND (E) AROMATIC RADICALS OF THE BENZENE AND NAPHTHALENE SERIES HAVING TO 1 TO 2 SUBSTITUENT GROUPS EACH OF WHICH IS AN ALKYL GROUP OF 1 TO 18 CARBONS.