Liquid polymers, solid articles made therefrom and methods of preparing same

Claim 1

A PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A CLEAR SINGLE PHASE LIQUID POLYMER CONTAINING AT LEAST 50% BY WEIGHT OF THE OXIDE OF A METAL SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF METALS WHOSE HYDROUS OXIDES ARE PRECIPITATED AT A PH MORE ACID THAN 7 ON TREATMENT OF AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS OF SALTS OF SAID METALS WITH ALKALIES, WHICH PRECIPITATES YIELD A PH OF LESS THAN 7 AFTER WASHING AND DISPERSION IN DISTILLED WATER, WHICH CLEAR LIQUID POLYMER EXHIBITS A VISCOSITY AT ROOM TEMPERATURE OF AT LEAST ABOUT 8500 CENTIPOISES, AND FROM WHICH SOLID INORGANIC POLYMER PRODUCTS MAY BE PREPARED WHICH COMPRISES: DISSOLVING A WATER-SOLUBLE METAL SALT OF A METAL OF SAID GROUP AND OF AN ALIPHATIC CARBOXYLIC ACID IN WATER; CLARIFYING THE RESULTANT SOLUTION TO THEREBY REMOVE EXTRANEOUS UNDISSOLVED SOLIDS AND GASES THEREFROM; THEREAFTER SUBJECTING THE RESULTANT CLARIFIED SOLUTION TO VACUUM EVAPORATION WHILE MAINTAINING THE TEMPERATURE OF THE SOLUTION IN THE TEMPERATURE RANGE OF 15*C.L TO 25*C.; AND CONTINUING THE VACUUM EVAPORATION OF SAID SOLUTION, FOR REMOVAL OF VOLATILE CONSTITUENTS UNTIL THE RESULTING CONCENTRATE CONTAINS THE EQUIVALENT OF AT LEAST 50% BY WEIGHT OF THE OXIDE OF THE METAL WHOSE SALT IS INITIALLY DISSOLVED AND EXHIBITS A VISCOSITY OF AT LEAST ABOUT 8500 CENTIPOISES MEASURED AT ROOM TEMPERATURE.