Properties limiting commercial

Acrolein is a highly toxic material with extreme lacrimatory properties. At room temperature acrolein is a Hquid with volatiUty and flammabiUty somewhat similar to acetone but unlike acetone, its solubiUty in water is limited. Commercially, acrolein is always stored with hydroquinone and acetic acid as inhibitors. Special care in handling is required because of the flammabiUty, reactivity, and toxicity of acrolein. 

Uses. The chemical inertness, thermal stability, low toxicity, and nonflammability of PFCs coupled with their unusual physical properties suggest many useflil applications. However, the high cost of raw materials and manufacture has limited commercial production to a few, small-volume products. Carbon tetrafluoride and hexafluoroethane are used for plasma, ion-beam, or sputter etching of semiconductor devices (17) (see loN implantation). Hexafluoroethane and octafluoropropane have some applications as dielectric gases, and perfluorocyclobutane is used in minor amounts as a dielectric fluid. Perfluoro-1,3-dimethyl cyclohexane is used as an inert, immersion coolant for electronic equipment, and perfluoro-2-methyldecatin is used for... 

Properties. Limited data are available for the types or grades of commercial agar which is usually in the form of chopped shreds, sheets, flakes, granules, or powder. The official specifications for agar are provided in the USP (12) and the Food Chemicals Codex (13). 

Many other liquids have been found to be effective plasticisers for PVC but are of limited commercial value, at least in Britain. The effect of plasticisers on the properties of PVC is illustrated in Figure 12.20 (a-e). 

For commercial towers with good liquid/vapor distribution Norton [96] recommends standard designs use HETP ralues 13% above the system base HETP. If the system under consideration does not meet the physical properties limit, either use a conservative estimate or use actual plant or published data for the system. For comparison of HETP values for selected packings see Strigle and Rukovena [94], Figure 9-28. 

P.R.17 provides medium reddish shades. As a result of poor fastness properties, its commercial significance is somewhat limited and it is sold only in small volume. P.R.17 has the advantage of being fast to acid, alkali, and soap. It is therefore used in offset, gravure, and flexo printing inks wherever tolerance to alkali and soap is a major concern. Moreover, P.R.17 is also employed in connection with mass coloration and surface coloration of paper. 

Hphe unique properties of elemental sulfur make it a desirable base for coatings and construction materials. Among its attributes are hardness, resistance to chemical attack, high strength, and a low melt viscosity (J). Few, if any, common materials have this combination of useful properties. The commercial use of sulfur in these applications has been limited because of its brittleness, lack of resistance to thermal shock, and poor weatherability. 

Material properties, limited availability and growing demand initiated, at the beginning of the twentieth century, scientific and commercial efforts for the manufacturing of synthetic mbber [40]. Regarding economy, safety, and technical flexibility emulsion polymerization, besides mass and solution polymerization, turned out to be the most appropriate technology. In addition to synthetic mbber and other elastomer syntheses, emulsion polymerization technologies are employed for E-PVC and paste PVC and are of paramount importance for the manufacture of dispersion polymers. 

As discussed in Section 5.5.2, the mechanical properties of commercially-avail-able Sylgard 184 PDMS limit the minimum feature size achievable to several microns... 

The data presented in Figs. 5, 6, 7, and 8 should be considered typical of the lovv-tem-perature mechanical properties of commercial 0.005- and O.OlO-in.-diameter Nb-25 %Zr superconductor wires. In view of the difficulties involved in testing extremely small-diameter wires at cryogenic temperatures, as well as the limited number of samples tested, it would be erroneous to consider the data design minima. As design guide information, however, the data are significant. 

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