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M. W. Tausch, W. Held, J. Weis, Silicone, Special edition of the journal Praxis der Naturwissenschaften - Chemie in der Schule, 2002, 5/(7). 

The intention of this chapter is to outline the advantages of using HTV and LR silicone rubbers. These materials are most commonly used by the silicone rubber industry. It would however be wrong to think that silicone rubbers and their bonding were limited to just these two groups of materials and this chapter will also consider other silicone specialities. 

The main synthetic fluids used as special lubricants are esters, polyglycols, silicones, halogenated hydrocarbons and polyphenyl ethers. 

This type of analysis requires several chromatographic columns and detectors. Hydrocarbons are measured with the aid of a flame ionization detector FID, while the other gases are analyzed using a katharometer. A large number of combinations of columns is possible considering the commutations between columns and, potentially, backflushing of the carrier gas. As an example, the hydrocarbons can be separated by a column packed with silicone or alumina while O2, N2 and CO will require a molecular sieve column. H2S is a special case because this gas is fixed irreversibly on a number of chromatographic supports. Its separation can be achieved on certain kinds of supports such as Porapak which are styrene-divinylbenzene copolymers. This type of phase is also used to analyze CO2 and water. 

Special products silicones, silicates, polyphenylethers, used rarely and for very specialized applications because they are expensive materials. 

Therefore it is reasonable to prepare already the data acquisition for a three dimensional evaluation in cone-beam-technique by means of two-dimensional detectors. The system is already prepared to integrate a second detector- system for this purpose. An array of up to four flat panel detectors is foreseen. The detector- elements are based on amorphous silicon. Because of the high photon energy and the high dose rates special attention was necessary to protect the read-out electronics. Details of the detector arrangement and the software for reconstruction, visualisation and comparison between the CT results and CAD data are part of a separate paper during this conference [2]. 

Monolayers can be transferred onto many different substrates. Most LB depositions have been perfonned onto hydrophilic substrates, where monolayers are transferred when pulling tire substrate out from tire subphase. Transparent hydrophilic substrates such as glass [18,19] or quartz [20] allow spectra to be recorded in transmission mode. Examples of otlier hydrophilic substrates are aluminium [21, 22, 23 and 24], cliromium [9, 25] or tin [26], all in their oxidized state. The substrate most often used today is silicon wafer. Gold does not establish an oxide layer and is tlierefore used chiefly for reflection studies. Also used are silver [27], gallium arsenide [27, 28] or cadmium telluride wafer [28] following special treatment. 

There are hundreds of semiconductor materials, but silicon alone accounts for tire overwhelming majority of tire applications world-wide today. The families of semiconductor materials include tetraliedrally coordinated and mostly covalent solids such as group IV elemental semiconductors and III-V, II-VI and I-VII compounds, and tlieir ternary and quaternary alloys, as well as more exotic materials such as tire adamantine, non-adamantine and organic semiconductors. Only tire key features of some of tliese materials will be mentioned here. For a more complete description, tire reader is referred to specialized publications [6, 7, 8 and 9]. 

It is often advisable to lubricate ground-glass joint surfaces with an extremely thin film of vaseline. This applies particularly to joints employed in assemblies for distillation under reduced pressure. For distillations under greatly reduced pressures or at very high temperatures it is essential to employ a special lubricant, e.g., silicone grease. 

Note for highly substituted allenes containing silicon, gernanium or tin we observed deviations of the calculated chemical shifts from the measured values, and one should therefore treat these particular cases with special care. 

The basic stmcture of a naphthalocyanine dye can be seen in Figure 6 (12). By varying the central atom Y, the organic (polymeric) group at the central atom, and the substituents and X, an adjustment to the desired property profile, especially improved solubihty, can be achieved. Naphthalocyanines with sihcon as central atom evoke special interest, eg, the biaxiahy substituted silicon—naphthalocyanine (13) wherein the central Si bears... 

Specialized alloys are used for high temperature appHcations on turbine blades, furnace parts, thermocouples, etc. These coatings can be as simple as iron—silicon—chromium or as exotic as chromium—aluminum—hafnium (36,41,52). 

Silicon Nitride. SiUcon nitride is manufactured either as a powder as a precursor for the production of hot-pressed parts or as self-bonded, reaction-sintered, siUcon nitride parts. a-SiUcon nitride, used in the manufacture of Si N intended for hot pressing, can be obtained by nitriding Si powder in an atmosphere of H2, N2, and NH. Reaction conditions, eg, temperature, time, and atmosphere, have to be controlled closely. Special additions, such as Fe202 to the precursor material, act as catalysts for the formation of predorninately a-Si N. SiUcon nitride is ball-milled to a very fine powder and is purified by acid leaching. SiUcon nitride can be hot pressed to full density by adding 1—5% MgO. 

SiHcone resins provide coatings having outstanding heat resistance and exterior durabiHty. The cost is relatively high but for specialized appHcations these resins are important binders (64). Silicone-modified acryHc and polyester resins provide binders having intermediate durabiHty properties and cost. Fluorinated polymers also exhibit outstanding durabiHty properties. High cost, however, limits appHcabiHty. 

Higli-Silicon Iron Duriron is a high-silicon iron containing approximately 14.5 percent silicon and 0.85 percent carbon. Duri-chlor is a special high-silicon iron containing appreciable amounts of molybdenum. 

Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cell This type of fuel cell was developed in response to the industiy s desire to expand the natural-gas market. The electrolyte is 93 to 98 percent phosphoric acid contained in a matrix of silicon carbide. The electrodes consist of finely divided platinum or platinum alloys supported on carbon black and bonded with PTFE latex. The latter provides enough hydrophobicity to the electrodes to prevent flooding of the structure by the electrolyte. The carbon support of the air elec trode is specially formulated for oxidation resistance at 473 K (392°F) in air and positive potentials. 

Fluidized bed reactors do not have to perform poorly, but special conditions must be maintained for good performance. A basic process for silicone manufacturing, which is not practiced much anymore, is the reaction of silicon metal with methyl chloride to form dimethyl dichlorosilane ... 

Some of the problems can be solved with specially selected oil grades. Another solution is synthetic oils, but cost is a problem particularly with silicone oils. Alternatives must be reviewed to match service life of the lubricant with lubrication requirements in the compressor. 

Rev. Lett. 56,1377,1986. Detection of hydrogen clustering in amorphous hydrogenated silicon by a special technique of dipolar spectroscopy, mul-dple-quantum NMR. 

The temperature range of general purpose material is approximately -50 to h-250°C but both ends of the range may be extended by the use of special purpose materials. Whereas the general purpose silicone compounds have a tensile strength of about 1000 Ibf/in (7 MPa) it is possible using fumed silicas to achieve values of up to 20001bf/in (14 MPa). Similarly, whereas the normal cured compounds have a compression set of 20-50% after 24 hours at 150°C, values of as low as 6% may be obtained with the special rubbers. 

The suppliers typically offer coater-ready adhesives thus leaving little freedom for formulation and performance adjustment by the end user. However, they have also developed a significant knowledge basis, which has allowed them to make silicones into a very versatile, yet specialized class of PSAs. 

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