Organic barium complexes and method of making same

Claim 1

A PROCESS WHICH COMPRISES PREPARING AND MIXING A MASS IN WHICH, AT 50* C., AT LEAST 50% OF THE COMPONENTS ARE IN THE LIQUID STATE, AND IN WHICH MASS THE ACTIVE COMPONENTS CONSIST OF: A. AN ORGANIC COMPOUND SELECTED FROM THE CLASS CONSISTING OF OIL-SOLUBLE ORGANIC SULOPHONIC ACID COMPOUNDS HAVING A TOTAL OF AT LEAST 18 CARBON ATOMS AND THE BARIUM SALTS THEREOF; B. AN ORGANIC COMPOUND SELECTED FROM THE CLASS CONSISTING OF PHENOLIC ORGANIC COMPOUNDS AND THE BARIUM SALTS THEREOF, SAID ORGANIC COMPOUND HAVING: (A) AN IONIZATION CONSTANT IN WATER OF AT LEAST ABOUT 1X10-10 AT ABOUT 25* C.; (B) A WATER SOLUBILITY AT 50* C. OF AT LEAST ABOUT 0.0005%; AND (C) IN SATURATED AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS AT ABOUT 25* C. A PH OF LESS THAN 7; THE RELATIVE AMOUNTS OF A AND B USED BEING IN THE RANGE OF FROM ABOUT ONE EQUIVALENT OF A TO ABOUT 10 EQUIVALENTS OF B TO ABOUT 10 EQUIVALENTS OF A TO ABOUT ONE EQUIVALENT OF B; C. AN INORGANIC BARIUM COMPOUND; (1) WHICH IS WATER-SOLUBLE AT A TEMPERATURE OF 50* C. TO THE EXTENT OF AT LEAST ABOUT 0.0003%; (2) IN AN AMOUNT SUCH THAT THERE ARE PRESENT IN THE MASS SUBSTANTIALLY MORE THAN 1 EQUIVALENT OF BARIUM, INCLUDING THE BARIUM PRESENT IN THE REMAINING COMPONENTS, PER EQUIVALENT OF A PLUS B; AND D. WATER, IN AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO AT LEAST ABOUT ONE MOLE PER MOLE OF C; MAINTAINING THE MASS AT A TEMPERATURE AND FOR A PERIOD OF TIME SUFFICIENT TO DRIVE OFF SUBSTANTIALLY ALL FREE WATER AND WATER OF HYDRATION WHICH MAY BE PRESENT, AND FORM THE ORGANIC BARIUM COMPLEX; AND THEN TREATING THE ORGANIC BARIUM COMPLEX WITH CARBON DIOXIDE IN AMOUNTS SUFFICIENT TO LIBERATE A SUBSTANTIAL PROPORTION OF SAID ORGANIC COMPOUND OF COMPONENT B.