Simple Methods for Identification of Plastics: With the Plastics Identification Table by Hansjurgen Saechtling - Hardcover

Dietrich Braun

 
9781569902042: Simple Methods for Identification of Plastics: With the Plastics Identification Table by Hansjurgen Saechtling

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Processors and users of plastics often need to determine the chemical nature of a plastics specimen. The highly practical and useful manual, now in a fifth revised and supplemented edition, will enable you to determine the class of plastic of a particular specimen. No extensive knowledge of chemistry is required and yet it is more than a simple tabular compilation. This manual is a handy, highly effective tool for many practical situations. An additional supplement is a chapter that shows strategies for identifying historical plastic objects; this is of particular interest for assemblers, collectors, and conservators.

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A 5x7.5" manual for determining plastic classes, for processors and users of plastics. Provides information on sample preparation, preliminary tests, testing for heteroatoms, and analytical procedures, and instructions for specific identification tests, with discussion of chemicals and laboratory equipment. Includes plastics identification tables, and a glossary of acronyms. This third edition is updated with respect to trade names, material suppliers, and polymer blends. Assumes no in-depth knowledge of chemistry. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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ISBN 10:  3446185984 ISBN 13:  9783446185982
Publisher: Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co, 1996
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