Macerate filler

Examples of only a few additives are carbon black, carnauba wax, coconut shell, coke dust, macerated filler, shell flour, vermiculite, and wax. Many additives, especially those that are conductive may affect electrical properties. Most plastics, which are poor conductors of current, build up a charge of static electricity. Antistatic agents can be used to attract moisture, reducing the likelihood of a spark or discharge. 

MACERATE. (I) To soften or break up a fibrous substance by long soaking in water ul 01 near room temperature, often accompanied by mechanical actum, as in the preparation of paper slock in the beater. (2 in the plastics industry, to comminute a fabric so that it can be used as a filler in a plastics composition. (3) The term is also used in pharmacy to describe a method of preparing medicinal compositions. 

Examples of a few are alpha cellulose, ash, calcium carbide, calcium carbonate, carborundum, channel black, china clay, coral, coke dust, diatomaceous earth, dolomite [double carbonate of lime and magnesia filler having the formula (CaCOg) and (MgCOg)], ferrite, flint, fixller s earth, glass spheres, hemp, keratin, lampblack, leather-dust, macerate... 

Reclaimed fillers include macerated fabric and cord. These fillers lead to compounds with 10 or more times the impact strength of corresponding wood flour-filled compositions. Reclaimed rubber, such as nitrile rubber, improves flexibility as well as impact strength in phenolic resins. Thermoplastic fillers are also used in thermoset resins for the purpose of increasing toughness and impact strength. 

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