Mineral additives for setting and/or controlling the rheological properties and gel structure of aqueous liquids, and the use of such additives

摘要

PCT No. PCT/EP93/01902 Sec. 371 Date Jan. 27, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date Jan. 27, 1995 PCT Filed Jul. 19, 1993 PCT Pub. No. WO94/02566 PCT Pub. Date Feb. 3, 1994The invention concerns the use of mixed hydroxydes of bivalent and trivalent metals with a three-dimensional spaced-lattice structure of the garnet type to control the thixotropic thickening of aqueous preparations, using swellable clays and/or other swellable layer-silicate compounds of natural and/or synthetic origin as visosity-increasing agents. The preferred garnet-type mixed hydroxydes are catoites of the basic structure Ca3Al2(OH)12 a minor proportion of whose OH units can be exchanged for acid groups, in particular silicate groups.