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Most solvents at room temperature but aromatic and chlorinated hydrocarbons will cause swelling. Relatively unaffected by polar solvents, for example alcohols, phenols, esters and ketones vegetable oils, water, alkalis, most concentrated acids at room temperature and ozone (in absence of U.V.). Very low water absorption even after long immersion times, for example after one year at 20° C (68° F), the increase in... 

Other methods for analyzing combustion products can be substituted for chromatography. Gravimetry can be used, for example, after a series of absorption on different beds, as in the case of water absorption in magnesium perchlorate or CO2 in soda lime infra-red spectrometry can be used for the detection of CO2 and water. 

Water absorption is also reduced for large articles, i.e. for low surface to volume (S/V) ratios2. For example, for two samples with S/V ratios 6.0 and 1.5 cm-1 the absorption figures were 0.55 and 0.12 vol%, respectively (after 24 hours at 7 MPa). In practice the S/V ratio should be less than 0.5 cm-1 for syntactic foams used for boats142). 

The MSC has been shown to work well in several empirical studies [9, 10], which showed an improvement in the performance of multivariate calibrations and a reduction in the number of factors in PCA. For example, NIR reflectance spectra of 20 powder samples of microcrystalline cellulose are shown in Figure 4.8a. Due to differences in particles size from sample to sample, there are significantly different baseline offsets. The same spectra are shown in Figure 4.8b after multiplicative scatter correction. The different baseline offsets observed in Figure 4.8a are so large that they mask important differences in the water content of these samples. These differences are revealed in the water absorption band at 1940 nm after the baseline offsets have been removed by MSC. 

The transition from the sohd state to the hquid state is always accompanied by the absorption of heat. A definite amoimt of heat, which is called the latent heat of fusion, is absorbed when unit mass of a sohd body melts. The latent heat of water, for example, is 80 cal., that is to say, when I gr. of ice melts to form I gr. of water at 0°, the heat absorbed would heat I gr. of water from 0° to 80°. In consequence of the absorption of heat on melting, the temperature of a sohd body cannot be raised above its melting point. The heat which we make the body absorb after it has reached the melting point can no longer raise the temperature, as it is all used up in the process of fusion. Only when the whole of the sohd has melted does a further addition of heat cause the temperature of the hquid to rise. A mixture of sohd and hquid remains permanently at the constant temperature of the melting point. 

Water absorption showed a rather complex quantitative pattern for composites of HDPE, wood flour, and talc. Evidently, the higher the plastic content and the talc content, the lower the water absorption. However, in the triple system when talc also replaced plastic, and wood fiber content increased, the relationship with water absorption was not that simple, particularly when weight and volume percents of the ingredients were considered. For example, after 4000 h of water immersion, the composition of 44% HDPE, 27% wood flour, and 27% talc (the balance was a lubricant) absorbed 6% water (w/w). A slight increase of HDPE content to 47%, with a concurrent increase of wood flour to 40% and decrease of talc content to 10% gave 11% of water absorption. A sharp decrease of HDPE content to 25%, with both a concurrent decrease of wood flour (36%) and increase in talc (36%) resulted in 13% of water absorption. Finally, a composition with 28% of HDPE, 54% of wood flour, and 14% of talc absorbed 20% of water [6-8]. 

Nanoparticles can increase water absorption by WPCs. For example, after a month of underwater exposnre of the WPC (50% polypropylene -l- nanoclay, w/w, 46% maple wood flour [80-mesh], and 4% conpling agent) no-nanoclay composite absorbed 2.7% of water, 4%-nanoclay composite absorbed 2.9% of water, and 10%-nanoclay composite absorbed 4.4% water [24], It also makes nanoparticles undesirable in WPC prodncts, nnless some means are found to overcome this problem. 

Obviously, the higher the cellulose content in a WPC material, the higher is the water absorption, unless each cellulose particle is fully encapsulated in the plastic and inaccessible to water. Indeed, water absorption typically shows an almost linear increase with the increase in cellulose fraction in the composite. For example, with cellulose content in LDPE-based composite material of 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50%, the equilibrium (as authors of the study believed) water absorption after 20-30 days was equal to 1, 4, 6, 9, and 12% (w/w), respectively [7]. 

Figure 1. One observation (sapwood welded by 0.75 MPa welding pressure and 1.5 s welding time) was chosen to show two examples of CT-images before and after water absorption, (a) CT-image before water absorption, (b) CT-image after water absorption. A crack appeared as a black streak in...

In the previous section, water absorption was described as a method to activate the shape-memory effect. However, all polymeric materials are subject to some level of water uptake, which can drastically change the mechanical properties of the polymer. For example, the mechanical properties of the Mitsubishi Thermoplastic SMP, MM5510, are reduced after soaking in water for 72 h (Fig. 12). The figure illustrates that the elastic modulus, yield strength, and toughness aU decrease after exposure to water uptake. 

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