Fire retardant action of mineral fillers

Polymer Degradation and Stability

Volumn 96, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1462-1469

  Hull, T Richard ^a   Witkowski, Artur ^a   Hollingbery, Luke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aluminium hydroxide; ATH; Filler; Fire; Flame; Retardant

Indexed keywords

ALUMINIUM HYDROXIDE; ATH; CONE CALORIMETER; ENDOTHERMIC DECOMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGN; FIRE RETARDANT; FLAME; GASPHASE; HALOGENATED FLAME RETARDANT; HEAT ABSORPTION; HUNTITE; HYDROMAGNESITE; MAGNESIUM CARBONATE; MAGNESIUM HYDROXIDE; MINERAL FILLER; NATURALLY OCCURRING; POLYMER RESIDUE; PRESENCE OF WATER; RETARDANT; STANDARD FIRE;

ALUMINUM; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONATES; DECOMPOSITION; FILLERS; FIREPROOFING; FIRES; FIRING (OF MATERIALS); FLAMMABILITY TESTING; MAGNESIUM; POLYMERS; SILICATE MINERALS; SPECIFIC HEAT;

FLAME RETARDANTS;

EID: 79959744794     PISSN: 01413910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2011.05.006     Document Type: Article

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