Thermogravimetric analysis and the flash-ignition and self-ignition temperatures of copolymers of styrene with halogenated monomers

✍ Scribed by F. Hrabák; I. Masařik; K. Bouchal; M. Slaviček

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1977
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 352 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0014-3057
• DOI: 10.1016/0014-3057(77)90136-7

✦ Synopsis

A~tract--The TGA method was used in studies of the thermal decomposition of copolymers of styrene with 1,2,2,2-tetrachloroethyl esters of acrylic and fumaric acids and with halogenated N-phenyl maleimides, and of homopolymers of halogenated monomers and mixtures of polystyrene with poly[N-2,4,6trichlorophenyl)maleimide]. The flash-ignition and self-ignition temperatures of these polymers were determined using the Setchkin apparatus. The data thus obtained are used to discuss the effect of the structure of halogenated comonomers on the thermal stability of their copolymers with styrene and on the character of the thermogravimetric curves. The flash-ignition and self-ignition temperatures are compared with results for the thermal decomposition of copolymers and with their chemical composition.