⚗ Polymers Forum

EPP foam in UK?

Does anyone know of a UK source of smallish quantities of expanded polypropylene foam blocks, say 50 x 600 x 1200 mm? Th...

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posted by zenadsl6186

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Use of Viton (FKM/FPM) with hot water or steam service

Viton is often used as elastomeric seat in butterfly valves. Viton is know to be restistant to 'difficult' chemical med...

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posted by jvdb

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secondary electron mfp in PMMA

I have tried to find the mean free path for low energy electrons (e.g. secondaries with < 100 eV energy) in PMMA or oth...

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posted by flipsu5

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How can you make large foam blocks?

Does anybody know how to (inexpensively) make large foam blocks? I need a size of approx 4ft x 4ft x 16in. I want to us...

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posted by wdoe999

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Graduation

Hy, i need some link to interesting websites about polyethilen and technology ...somebody can help me?

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posted by mbertu

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Surface Tension

I'm currently working on polybutadiene polymerisation process. I would like to know the difference between a potassium...

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posted by KHARIHARAN24

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Annealing process of PS&PP ??

Hi, To relieve the residual stress, I will have to thermal anneal my PS&PP panels. At the same time, I want to keep the...

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posted by jianghanus

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Phosphates to remove heavy metals in polyester production

Can anyone give me some detailed informaition on the captioned issue? Thanks in advance.

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posted by dennis.dou

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injection moulding

would just like to know what the largest size of product you can find for injection moulding is any help would be great...

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posted by smiley_k90

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Polarizability values for ester groups or PMMA

Hello, I am looking for the polarizability values of ester groups. Can anybody point me in the direction of where to fin...

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posted by gerard.harbach

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Best way to bond Kevlar to fiberglass ?

I'm pondering reinforcing an older fiberglass sailboat with Kevlar but am not sufficiently knowledgeable to evaluate th...

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posted by ccthomas

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ABS metalizing and tensile strength growth

Does anybody know/hear why such extra tinsile strength after ABS metalizing? For example: Cu 30E-3 mm + Ni 15E-3 mm + C...

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posted by j•z•a•g•a•j•a

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Bonding HDPE

I am looking at fabricating from 12 mm HDPE sheet, and need to bond it. I know 3M and Loctite have some polyolefin adhe...

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posted by peter1810

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Where to find 1953 article in "Modern Plastics"

Hello, I just read an article in the Journal of applied physics (1954, vol 25, number 10, 1232-1240) on birefringence i...

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posted by gerard.harbach

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PVC pipe fittings

HI! I need to know if anyone can help me concerning the pvc pipe fittings, i want to know what sort of steels do we use...

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posted by ameer.meerani

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