Water-Soluble Polymers

Water-soluble polymers have been attracting increasing atten­ tion because of their utility in industrial applications of great current concern. Perhaps preeminent among these is their ability to flocculate suspended solids, e.g., wastes in municipal sew­ age-treatment plants or pulp in papermaking. other important appli­ cations are to aid in so-called secondary recovery of petroleum, to reduce t...