An improved golf tee for being used upon a golf course; the tee being made of a substance such as grass seed or plant food and a carrier material such as cellulose that serves as a binder to hold the substance together when molded into tee shape; the tee after becoming broken or lost in use on the golf course promoting grass growth, thus eliminating becoming scattered debris while at a same time improving the ecology.

Growth promotion in animals is achieved by administration of 1-methyl-5-nitroimidazol-2-methyl carbamate in feed and/or water.

.beta.-Phenethanolamines are effective in promoting growth and improving feed efficiency and leanness in animals.

A diamond film is grown on a substrate by providing a non-diamond substrate which has a face-centered cubic (fcc) crystal structure and small crystal lattice mismatch with the lattice of diamond, implanting carbon atoms into the crystal lattice of the substrate and causing the implanted carbon atoms to diffuse out of the substrate and grow epitaxially on the surface of the substrate. The preferred substrate is an fcc metal such as copper, nickel, fcc iron, fcc cobalt or fcc chromium.

The invention provides a mass of crystals, particularly diamond crystals, having a size of less than 100 microns and in which mass the majority of the crystals are faceted single crystals. The invention further provides a method of producing such a mass of crystals which utilizes crystal growth under elevated temperature and pressure conditions, the supersaturation driving force necessary for crystal growth being dependent, at least in part, on the difference in surface free energy between low M...

A panel (10) for use as a side wall of a plant growth container is disclosed. In one embodiment the panel (10) comprises an elongate cuspated sheet (11) having apertures formed in at least some of the outwardly projecting cusps to facilitate air root pruning of the root structure of a plant grown within the container. The sheet (11) includes a non-cuspated edge section (12), the non-cuspated edge section (12) being co-operable with a complementary edge section (13) of the same sheet (11) or of a...

This invention provides apparatus for the growth of biomass from a supply of suitable nutrient wherein the volume of biomass and the size and shape of the units in which it is present within a vessel (10) in which the reaction takes place can be accurately controlled. Control is achieved by providing a support structure (14) for the biomass comprising one or more movable bodies each of which has an internal reticular structure defining a substantial voidage therein and which essentially fills wi...

The present invention comprises an additive for compound feed for pigs, sheep, goats, poultry, cattle, horses, dogs, cats and fur-bearing animals, which contains an organic or inorganic acid, or salts thereof, espacially formic acid, with a beneficial effect on the treatment of compound feed, and a spent sulphite liquor from an acidic or neutral cellulose sulphite cook. The additive contains the acid or salts thereof in an amount ranging from 10-90 percentage weight, and the spent sulphite liquo...

Thin strip crystals are grown by pulling the growing crystal from the melt, through a thin slit, the walls of which are not wetted by the melt. The stability of growth at the edges of the strip is achieved by maintaining the pressure of the melt adjacent the interface between crystal and melt above a critical level which is such as to cause the meniscus of the melt to be convex on all sides of the growing crystal. The critical pressure is defined as where S is the surface tension of the crystall...

This invention relates to novel compositions containing a compound of formula I ##STR1## with a chelating agent capable of tying up essentially all of the calcium ion in aqueous spray water solution. These compositions are useful as plant growth regulants.