Diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid → Acrylamide-acrylic acid resin

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A water-in-oil emulsion of an acrylamide/acrylic acid copolymer is prepared by dissolving 125 g of acrylamide and 54 g of acrylic acid in 100 g of water. The pH of the resulting aqueous solution is adjusted to 6.5 by the addition of a 50 percent aqueous solution of NaOH. To this solution is added 0.04 g of the pentasodium salt of diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid and 2 g of a polyethylene glycol ether of a secondary alcohol sold by Union Carbide under the trade name Tergitol 15-S-9. The total weight of this aqueous phase is adjusted to 490 g by the addition of water. This aqueous phase is then dispersed in an oil phase which contains 182 g of liquid hydrocarbon, 4 g of isopropanolamide of oleic acid and 4 g of sorbitan monooleate. The resulting emulsion is placed into a liter glass resin kettle equipped with a stirrer, a nitrogen sparger, a thermometer, a water bath and gas exit. The kettle containing the emulsion is sparged with nitrogen for about 1 hour to remove oxygen. The emulsion is then subjected to polymerization conditions as described in U.S. Pat. No. 3,284,393 to form a water-in-oil emulsion of acrylamide/acrylic acid copolymer. After polymerization, 90 g of an aqueous solution of 16 g of Na2CO3 is added to the water-in-oil emulsion. To this emulsion is then added 7 g of Tergitol 15-S-9 (inverting surfactant) with stirring. The resulting emulsion is then tested for invertibility by the following procedure.

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