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The main limitation to thermal conversion is that the products can be unstable. Thermal cracking at low pressure gives olefins, particularly in the naphtha fraction such olefins yield an unstable product that tends to form gum as well as heavier products that form sediments (5). 

In Chapter 13 we showed that, if a material contains a crack, and is sufficiently stressed, the crack becomes unstable and grows - at up to the speed of sound in the material -to cause catastrophically rapid fracture, or fast fracture at a stress less than the yield stress. We were able to quantify this phenomenon and obtained a relationship for the onset of fast fracture... 

The common tests are shown in Fig. 17.2. The obvious one is the simple tensile test (Fig. 17.2a). It measures the stress required to make the longest crack in the sample propagate unstably in the way shown in Fig. 17.3(a). But it is hard to do tensile tests on ceramics - they tend to break in the grips. It is much easier to measure the force required to break a beam in bending (Fig. 17.2b). The maximum tensile stress in the surface of the beam when it breaks is called the modulus of rupture, o for an elastic beam it is related to the maximum moment in the beam, M by... 

Ozone cracking is a physicochemical phenomenon. Ozone attack on olefinic double bonds causes chain scission and the formation of decomposition products. The first step in the reaction is the formation of a relatively unstable primary ozonide, which cleaves to an aldehyde or ketone and a carbonyl. Subsequent recombination of the aldehyde and the carbonyl groups produces a second ozonide [58]. Cross-linking products may also be formed, especially with rubbers containing disubstituted carbon-carbon double bonds (e.g. butyl rubber, styrene-butadiene rubber), due to the attack of the carbonyl groups (produced by cleavage of primary ozonides) on the rubber carbon-carbon double bonds. 

In-service issues. As mentioned previously, many early service failures of bonded structure were due to adherend surface treatments that were unstable in long-term exposure to water. A majority of these problems were resolved by the adoption of surface treatments such as chromic and phosphoric acid anodize for aluminum details. The remaining few were alleviated by the adoption of phosphoric acid anodized honeycomb core and foaming adhesives resistant to water passage. Other service durability issues such as the cracking of brittle potting compound used to seal honeycomb sandwich assemblies, and subsequent delamination, have been minor in scope. 

V. I tv wakened. Some frarile obiects broken and unstable objects overturned. A little cracked plaster. 

Residual fuel oil is generally known as the bottom product from atmospheric distillation units. Fuel oils produced from cracking units are unstable. When used as fuels, they produce smoke and deposits that may block the burner orifices. 

Holding of the temperature between 400 and 575°C causes the iron particles to coagulate and the scale becomes further enriched in oxygen. Since wiistite is unstable below 575°C, scales produced at temperatures lower than this contain magnetite and haematite only. In addition, the scales are often cracked and porous. This is due to the difference in contraction... 

Due to the retractive forces in stretched mbber, the aldehyde and zwitterion fragments are separated at the molecular-relaxation rate. Therefore, the ozonides and peroxides form at sites remote from the initial cleavage, and underlying mbber chains are exposed to ozone. These unstable ozonides and polymeric peroxides cleave to a variety of oxygenated products, such as acids, esters, ketones, and aldehydes, and also expose new mbber chains to the effects of ozone. The net result is that when mbber chains are cleaved, they retract in the direction of the stress and expose underlying unsaturation. Continuation of this process results in the formation of the characteristic ozone cracks. It should be noted that in the case of butadiene mbbers a small amount of cross-linking occurs during ozonation. This is considered to be due to the reaction between the biradical of the carbonyl oxide and the double bonds of the butadiene mbber [47]. 

The unstable carbonium ion decomposes to a carbenium ion [CnH2 3r [CnH2n.ir+H2 and, in a cracking step... 

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