Rubbery materials reinforced with polyhydroxy treated silicon-oxygen type pigments and method of preparation

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A COMPOSISTION OF MATTER COMPRISING A MAJOR AMOUNT OF A RUBBERY MATERIAL SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF A RUBBERY HOMOPOLYMER OF A DIENE, A RUBBERY COPOLYMER OF A MIXTURE OF DIENES, A RUBBERY COPOLYMER OF AT LEAST ONE DIENE AND AT LEAST ONE COPOLYMERIZABLE MONOOLEFINIC MATERIAL SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF ISOBUTYLENE, STYRENE, ACRYLONITRILE, METHACRYLONITRILE, METHYL ACRYLATE, METHYL METHACRYLATE, ETHYL ACRYLATE, ETHYL METHACRYLATE AND 2-VINYL PYRIDINE, A RUBBERY HOMOPOLYMER OF AN ACRYLIC ACID ESTER, A RUBBERY COPOLYMER OF A MIXTURE OF ACRYLIC ACID ESTERS, A RUBBERY COPOLYMER OF A MIXTURE OF AT LEAST ONE ACRYLIC ACID ESTER AND AT LEAST ONE COPOLYMERIZABLE MONOOLEFINIC MATERIAL SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF CHLOROETHYL VINYL ETHER, ACRYLONITRILE, VINYL CHLORIDE, DICHLORODIFLUORO ETHYLENE, AND STYRENE, AND MIXTURES THEREOF, SAID DIENE BEING SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF OPEN-CHAIN CONJUGATED DIENE HYDROCARBONS AND OPEN-CHAIN CONJUGATED DIENE HYDROCARBONS HAVING ONE ATOM OF HYDROGEN REPLACED WITH CHLORINE AND SAID DIENE HAVING FROM 4 TO 8 CARBON ATOMS AND, AS A REINFORCING PIGMENT FOR SAID RUBBERY MATERIAL A MINOR AMOUNT OF A PARTICULATE SOLID MATERIAL SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF SUBSTANTIALLY FIBROUS SILICON MONOXIDE AND SUBSTANTIALLY FIBROUS SILICON DIOXIDE, SAID PARTICULATE MATERIAL HAVING BEEN TREATED WITH A MINOR AMOUNT BY WEIGHT, AS COMPARED TO SAID PARTICULATE MATERIAL, OF AT LEAST ONE ORGANIC POLYHYDROXY COMPOUND PRIOR TO INCORPORATION INTO SAID RUBBERY MATERIAL, SAID POLYHYDROXY COMPOUND BEING SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF ALIPHATIC AND ARYL-ALIPHATIC POLYHYDROXY COMPOUNDS, CONSISTING OF CARBON, HYDROGEN AND OXYGEN, HAVING FROM 2 TO 23 CARBON ATOMS AND HAVING FROM 2 TO 8 HYDROXYL RADICALS.