Artificial snow in an aggregate form of snow granules
AssigneesMiura Dolphins Co., Ltd., Tonen Corporation, Osaka Organic Chemical Industry Ltd., Tonen Chemical Corporation, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Masahisa Ohtsuka
InventorsYuichiro Miura, Kazuo Hirano, Takayuki Nate, Taiji Kambayashi, Masahisa Ohtsuka, Toshitake Nagai
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Abstract
Artificial snow granule in granule form comprising a super adsorbent polymer in granule form as a nucleus and an ice layer surrounding the nucleus is provided here. An aggregate form is provided by linkage of adjacent ice layers and/or granules. Further, a snow granule quality improver is provided. A method for making the above-mentioned snow granule in a granule or an aggregate form is also provided here.
Claims6
A snow quality improver comprising a super absorbent polymer in granule form wherein said super absorbent polymer has the following characteristics:
- (a) said polymer retains its original granule form after water absorption without sticking to other granules;
- (b) said polymer has a detonized-water absorbability of about 30 to 500 times the weight of the dry polymer;
- (c) said polymer has an average particle size of about 20 to 500 .mu.m before water absorption;
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- (d) said polymer has an average particle size of about 0.05 to 5 mm after water absorption.
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