Chemical resistant suits permeation

No chemical protective suit material resists permeation by all chemicals. These materials are likely to be vulnerable to one or more classes of chemicals. To detect these vulnerabilities, work was started in the 1980s to define a standard battery of test chemicals. The original proposals were based on solubility parameters, which attempts to characterize solvent and polymer interactions. While this provided some insight, eventually a list of 21 chemicals was selected, which represents multiple chemical classes that are generally the smallest molecules in their class, are readily available, and reasonably easy to handle in a laboratory. These chemicals were chosen to give a wide range... 

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