Plasticizers

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Pierre VERRIER : ENSIC engineer (École Nationale Supérieure des Industries Chimiques) - Former Research Associate, Exxon Chemical International - Brussels

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Thermoplastics are rarely used without additives. In fact, all the properties required for the finished object call for a skilful dosage of additives with specific action. The adjuvant which increases the flexibility of the polymer is a plasticizer, as defined in ISO 472 (1988) Plastics. Vocabulary is as follows.

Plasticizer: a substance of low or negligible volatility, incorporated into a plastic to lower its softening range, facilitate processing and increase flexibility or extensibility.

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(1) - SEARS (J.K.), DARBY (J.R.) - The technology of plasticizers. - Willey & Sons Ed., 1 166 p. (ouvrage encyclopédique donnant près de 1 500 références sur 240 p. et décrivant les propriétés physiques de l'ensemble des plastifiants utilisés aujourd'hui et les propriétés des produits plastifiés) (1982).
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