Weighing bottle test formaldehyde liberation

Figure 7. Formaldehyde liberation from particleboards and CH20-sorbed wood at 27°C and 33 percent relative humidity (RH) weighing bottle test with -80 mesh materials (o Southern pine impregnated with pH 2 tartaric acid and vapor-equilibrated with CH20/salt solution at pet RH O as before except heated 4 min. 16O°C after CH2O sorption 0 urea-formaldehyde particle board (b) phenol-formaldehyde particleboard, values approximate P = Perforator value at indicated moisture content (MC)).

Interpretation for Comminuted Systems. The similarities and differences noted for the kinetics of formaldehyde removal from UF and PF particleboards and from formaldehyde-sorbed wood are brought out more clearly by plotting relative formaldehyde losses versus time. Loss ratios, i.e., formaldehyde loss by any material divided by the UF board loss at the same time, are shown in Figures 10 and 11 included in Figure 10 are analogous ratios for resin data from formaldehyde liberation (weighing bottle test) and formaldehyde elution by toluene experiments (10). Examination of the data leads to the following additional comments ... 

Figure 10. Formaldehyde loss ratios at 20 percent relative humidity for various materials. (Formaldehyde removed from a material divided by that removed from urea-formaldehyde particleboard. Board elution by nitrogen. Resin liberation by weighing bottle test. PF = phenol-formaldehyde) (ML85 5437)...

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