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Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) may be harmful by inhalation or skin absorption. Wear appropriate gloves and safety glasses. Use in a chemical fume hood. DMSO is also combustible. Store in a tightly closed container. Keep away from heat, sparks, and open flame. DMSO easily penetrates the skin and is added as a transport mediator in some creams. This property makes it a carrier for other substances thus potentiating their risks. 

Uses. Apphcations for boron carbide relate either to its hardness or its high neutron absorptivity ( B isotope). Hot-pressed boron carbide finds use as wear parts, sandblast no22les, seals, and ceramic armor plates but in spite of its hardness, it finds Httie use as an abrasive. However, this property makes it particulady usehil for dressing grinding wheels. 

The ranges of properties in plastics encompasses all types of environmental and load conditions, each with its own individual, yet broad, range of properties (Fig. 1-9). These properties can take into consideration wear resistance, integral color, impact resistance, transparency, energy absorption, ductility, thermal and sound insulation, weight, and so forth. There is unfortunately no one plastic that can meet all maximum properties. Therefore, the designer has different options, such as developing a compromise because many product requirements provide options, particularly if cost is of prime importance. 

Despite wearing protective equipment that included disposable overalls and compressed-air-fed visors or full-facepiece masks with filters for dusts and vapors, hexachloroethane was detected in the plasma of exposed workers (Selden et al. 1993). After 5 weeks of exposure, plasma levels of hexachloroethane in 12 workers were 7.3 + 6 pg/L. Mild dermal irritation was also noted. If the skin irritation was a response to hexachloroethane rather than trauma from the protective clothing, the irritation suggests that the principal exposure route may have been dermal. Absorption of a saturated hexachloroethane solution across human skin was estimated to be 0.0230 mg/cm2/hour based on the physical properties of hexachloroethane (Fiserova-Bergerova et al. 1990). 

Terylene is an important polyester. It exhibits high resilience, durability, and low moisture absorption, properties that contribute to its desirable wash and wear characteristics. The harsh feel of the fiber, caused by the stiffness of the chain, is overcome by blending it with wool and cotton. 

PROPERTIES OF SPECIAL INTEREST Good abrasion resistance low flammability and emission of smoke and toxic gases low water absorption resistance to hydrolysis, wear, solvents, radiation, and high-temperature steam ease of processing and excellent thermal stability and mechanical properties at high temperatures. 

Studies have shown these siloranes to have good stability when stored in various media [163], a consequence of their relatively hydrophobic nature that also results in low water absorption and low water solubility [164], They have been used in all of the apphcations of conventional composites, including Class I and Class II cavities. Class V restorations and as posterior filhng materials. Results have generally been good [165-168], mainly as a result of the very fine filler employed, which gives good wear properties and hence clinical durability. 

This is a thermoplastic material, the correct name for which is poly-etheretherketone. PEEK is also regarded as a high-performing polymer, offering excellent chemical resistance, very low moisture absorption and good wear, abrasion and electrical resistance. It can be used continuously to 250°C in hot water and steam without permanent loss in physical properties. It is used to replace metal parts in the aerospace, automotive, oil and gas industries and is available reinforced with glass and carbon fibre. 

Biocomposites have some distinctive advantages as compared to petro-based non-biodegradable composites. Namely, the plant fibers have lower density, lower cost [5], better crash absorbance, and thermal [6] and sound absorption properties [7] compared to glass fibers. Furthermore, plant fibers cause less tool wear, skin and respiratory irritation than glass fibers [8]. Besides, plant fibers are renewable and biodegradable [5] and achieve good energy recovery if incinerated at the end of the service life [9]. 

Among various strategies that have been used to synthesize polyimides with lower dielectric constants, the most common approach is to incorporate fluorene, in the form of trifluoromethyl groups, into diamine and dianhydride units that minimize polarizability and increase the free volume [46]. It is well-known that fluorene atom has unique characteristics such as high electronegativity and low electric polarity. These properties give fluorinated polymers (e.g., poly[tetrafluoroethylene]) attractive features such as low water uptake, water and oil repellency, low permittivity, low refractive indices, resistance to wear and abrasion, and thermal and chemical stability. Fluorination is also known to enhance solubility and optical transparency and to lower the moisture absorption of polyimides. Therefore, it is expected that fluorinated polyimides will be widely applied in the electro-optical and semiconductor industries. The polymer series studied was essentially limited mainly to 6F dianhydride because it proved to be the only dianhydride with which many of the fluorinated diamines would form polymer films suitable for physical characterization. 

The characteristics of polyamides depend very much on the composition. They are generally wear-resistant and all forms are hygroscopic. This absorption of water (plastifying effect) significantly changes the properties of polyamides. The thermal resistance of most polyamides is high. They can be sterilised by steam or gamma radiation polyamide 6.6 can even be sterilised by hot air. 

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