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Plastics Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 40-42+44

  Ezrin, Myer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; CROSSLINKING; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GLASS TRANSITION; MICROANALYSIS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; THERMOANALYSIS;

CRYSTALLINITY; INTERMOLECULAR ORDER; MICRO-INFRARED ANALYSIS; MICRO-RAMAN ANALYSIS; MICROTHERMAL ANALYSIS;

PLASTICS;

EID: 0036487503     PISSN: 00919578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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