Use of nuclear fission in synthesizing organic compounds

Claim 1

THE PROCESS OF PRODUCING HIGHER MOLECULAR WEIGHT ORGANIC COMPOUNDS FROM LOWER MOLECULAR WEIGHT ORGANIC COMPOUNDS WHICH CONTAIN AT LEAST ONE CARBON-TO-HYDROGEN BOND, A MAXIMUM OF ONE FUNCTIONAL GROUP, AND ARE FREE OF OLEFINIC UNSATURATION, WHICH COMPRISES RUPTURING AT LEAST A CARBON-TO-HYDROGEN BOND IN SAID COMPOUND WITH THE SUBSEQUENT UNION OF THE RESULTING FRAGMENTS BY INTIMATELY CONTACTING FISSIONABLE MATERIAL, WHICH IS IN A FORM SUCH THAT SUBSTANTIALLY ALL OF IT HAS AT LEAST ONE DIMENSION THAT IS LESS THAT ABOUT 15 MICRONS, WITH MOLECULES OF AT LEAST ONE OF SAID LOWER MOLECULAR WEIGHT COMPOUNDS, AND, AT A TEMPERATURE OF FROM ABOUT 0*C. TO ABOUT 250*C., STIMULATING THE FISSIONABLE MATERIAL TO FISSION BY BOMBARDMENT WITH AN INTEGRATED NEUTRON FLUX AT LEAST AS STRONG AS THAT EMANATING FROM A RADIUM-BERYLLIUM SOURCE DURING A PERIOD OF AT LEAST SEVERAL HOURS AND, AFTER DECAY OF THE RADIOACTIVITY TO A SAFE LEVEL, SEPARATING THE RADIOACTIVE MATERRIAL FROM THE REACTION MATERIAL AND SEPARATING THE HIGHER MOLECUALR WEIGHT ORGANIC COMPOUND SO PRODUCED FROM THE REMAINDER OF THE REACTION MIXTURE.