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The demand of PET for packaging applications is growing fast. This fact is based on the outstanding and versatile properties of PET, such as tensile strength, toughness, dimensional stability, transparency and chemical resistance. The need 

The flow behavior of the polymer preferentially influences the uniform shell thickness and is related directly to the molecular structure of the modifying comonomer. Modifications of PET, particularly with CHDM, improve the flow behavior during injection molding and significantly reduce the melting point of the polymer. The decreased melting point of the copolymer allows reduced processing temperatures and therefore correlates with a reduced formation of unwanted A A at shortened cycle times. 

The optical properties of bottles are a matter of crystallinity affected by nucle-ation, depending on the content and size of light-scattering polymer solids. The purity of the raw materials and the cleanness of the reactors are prerequisites for satisfactory quality. Bottle polymer should display as little contaminations as possible. The detection of impurities is carried out by the same methods as mentioned above. Thorough filtration of the polymer is therefore mandatory. It should 

One impediment of universally applying PET in the area of packaging is its gas-barrier properties. These can be slightly improved by measures to increase the density (crystallinity) during blow molding, for example, by treatment with ultrasound. Ultrasonic treatment during injection reduces the gas permeability to a certain extent [34], 

The modification of PET with naphthalene-2,6-dicarboxylic acid and other additional comonomers is a common measure in bottle manufacturing. Copolyesters based on this compound show excellent barrier properties. Such materials can be produced by addition of the desired amount of comonomer during polymer processing or by blending PET with poly(ethylene naphthalate) (PEN). Additionally, PEN can also be modified by other comonomers such as isophthalic acid (IPA) to improve the flow properties and reduce the melting point. The high price of naphthalene dicarboxylic acid is the reason for its limited application. The overall cost may be reduced by using TPA or IPA as comonomers. 

The otlier severe problem in tlie application of PET regarding food containers or bottles is that tliese products cannot be hot-filled. This limitation is caused by tlie low Tg of PET, which causes sluinkage during hot-filling. Alternatively, multilayer containers can overcome the problems, but, however, at higher manufacturing costs. PET in combination with an intermediate layer of poly(etliylene-co-vinyl alcohol) (PEVOH) or polybutylene has been used in such 

polyesters based on naphthalene-2,6-dicarboxylic acid can meet the desired properties, plus have other additional advantages. Food components containing double bonds or conjugated double bonds are extremely sensitive to light-induced reactions, such as photo-oxidation. The addition of UV stabilizers is therefore necessary to protect the content of PET bottles against UV irradiation. PET, in contrast to PEN, does not show intrinsic UV protection properties. 

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At still shorter time scales other techniques can be used to detenuiue excited-state lifetimes, but perhaps not as precisely. Streak cameras can be used to measure faster changes in light intensity. Probably the most iisellil teclmiques are pump-probe methods where one intense laser pulse is used to excite a sample and a weaker pulse, delayed by a known amount of time, is used to probe changes in absorption or other properties caused by the excitation. At short time scales the delay is readily adjusted by varying the path length travelled by the beams, letting the speed of light set the delay. 

Plenary 10. Hiro-o Hamaguchi, e-mail address lilrama ,chem.s.u-tokvo.ac.ip (time and polarization resolved multiplex 2D-CARS). Two-dimensional (tune and frequency) CARS using broadband dye source and streak camera timing. Studies dynamic behaviour of excited (pumped) electronic states. Follows energy flow within excited molecules. Polarization control of phase of signal (NR background suppression). 

Many fonns of disorder in a surface structure can be recognized in the LEED pattern. The main manifestations of disorder are broadening and streaking of diffraction spots and diffuse intensity between spots [1]. 

The brush method here the substances to be separated give a colour test with a reagent. The developed column is extruded from the tube and streaked lengthwise with a brush dipped in the test reagent the colours... 

After the resin is appHed to the paper, the wet treated web enters a drying oven where most of the solvent is evaporated off. Modem treaters, such as that shown in Figure 1, have air flotation ovens so that the web is never touched by hot conveyor bars that may cause streaks noticeable in the final product. 

Optical signs of micas are negative, crystal system is monoclinic, and the streak is colorless. 

The appearance of streaks with leveling or nonleveling acid and premetallized dye can be subdued by increasing the dye-bath pH from 5.5 to 6—7, at a sacrifice ia dye exhaust, by a dding chemical agents that retard the dye strike or, more effectively, by metering all or a portion of the dye ia a concentrated solution at or near the dyeiag temperature of the fiber (87.8—104.4°C) iastead of at the usual 26.7—48.9°C practiced by the trade (178). 

To obtain reproducible antibiotic production by fermentation, it is necessary to obtain a pure culture of the producing organism. Pure cultures are isolated from mixed soil sample populations by various streaking and isolation techniques on nutrient media. Once a pure culture has been found that produces a new antibiotic typically on a mg/L scale, improvement in antibiotic yield is accompHshed by modification of the fermentation medium or strain selection and mutation of the producing organism. Production of g/L quantities may take years to accomplish. 

Waxes and Wax—Metal Emulsions. Waxes and wax—metal emulsions are the lowest priced, widely used water repeUents and fluorochemical extenders. They can be appUed by padding or exhaustion with no cure commonly required. However, waxes have only poor-to-fair durabUity to washing and dry cleaning, and tend to show streaks from abrasion. 

Deposits sometimes block fuel nozzles and distort fuel spray patterns, lea ding to skewed temperature distribution with the possibiUty of burnout of turbiae parts by a "hot streak" exhaust. These deposits are sometimes associated with metal-containing particulates, but ia geaeral are another manifestation of fuel iastabiUty. 

Mice are utilized for testing antiseptics for appHcation to cuts, wounds, and incisions (339). The test bacteria, type 1 pneumococcus and hemolytic streptococcus, ate appHed to the taHs of anaesthetized mice. The tip of the taH is then dipped into the antiseptic for 2 min, after which one-half inch of the taH is removed and inserted into the peritoneal cavity and the incision is closed. If after 10 days the animals survive, the product is considered satisfactory for use as a skin antiseptic. The blood of dead animals is sampled and streaked on blood agar for confirmation of infection from the test bacteria as the cause of death. Since lack of toxicity is another requirement of a product to be appHed to wounds, this test has been combined with a toxicity test (340). 

The detection of Hquid crystal is based primarily on anisotropic optical properties. This means that a sample of this phase looks radiant when viewed against a light source placed between crossed polarizers. An isotropic solution is black under such conditions (Fig. 12). Optical microscopy may also detect the Hquid crystal in an emulsion. The Hquid crystal is conspicuous from its radiance in polarized light (Fig. 13). The stmcture of the Hquid crystalline phase is also most easily identified by optical microscopy. Lamellar Hquid crystals have a pattern of oil streaks and Maltese crosses (Fig. 14a), whereas ones with hexagonal arrays of cylinders give a different optical pattern (Fig. 14b). 

Fig. 14. A sample of a lamellar liquid crystal between crosses polarized in an optical microscope gives a pattern of "oily streaks" and Maltese crosses (a) while the Hquid crystal consisting of an array of cylinders shows the characteristic sectional pattern (b).

Beneath each tubercle was a dish-shaped depression. Some depressions were as deep as half the intact wall thickness. Many shallow striation-streaked depressions were present on internal surfaces (Fig. 3.24). Circumferential welds were preferentially attacked (Fig. 3.27). 

Stainless steels attacked by sulfate reducers show well-defined pits containing relatively little deposit and corrosion product. On freshly corroded surfaces, however, black metal sulfides are present within pits. Rust stains may surround pits or form streaks running in the direction of gravity or flow from attack sites. Carbon steel pits are usually capped with voluminous, brown friable rust mounds, sometimes containing black iron sulfide plugs fFig. 6.10). 

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