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A detailed kinetic model for n-butane combustion has also been reported by Kojima [234] comprising 700 reversible reactions. Although this may prove to be a useful development, it has not been the subject of chemical validation, having been used only to simulate ignition delays for n-butane in a shock tube and in a rapid compression machine. In the absence of complementary chemical tests, the prediction of ignition delay really constitutes an application rather than a test of a comprehensive kinetic scheme. 

Alexander, Carter, and Hudson (J.S.D.C., 1949, 152) drew attention to the fact that permanganate-treated wool shrinks as much as an untreated specimen when acid milled, but is unshrinkable when conditions are alkaline. It was also found that such wool would not felt in a washing machine if the />H was above 7, but did so rapidly when the pH was below 7, and even when alkaline it shrank in a mill where it was subjected to violent compression and agitation. With chlorine the scales are removed or loosened so that they fall away, but this is not the case with permanganate. An interesting example of the influence of mechanical factors on... 

MPRs are amorphous polymers, with no sharp melt point, which can be processed in both resin melt and rubber processing machines, injection molded, extruded, blow molded, calendered, and compression molded. 1 Flow properties are more similar to rubber than to thermoplastics. The polymer does not melt by externally applied heat alone, but becomes a high-viscosity, intractable semifluid. It must be subjected to shear in order to achieve flowable melt viscosities, and shear force applied by the plasticating screw is necessary. Without applied shear, melt viscosity and melt strength increase too rapidly in the mold. Even with shear and a hot mold, as soon as the mold is filled and the plasticating screw stops or retracts, melt viscosity and melt strength increase rapidly. 

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