THE HALF-LIFE OF THE STYRENE FREE RADICAL

Abstract

The principle of the method of Paneth and Hofeditz of studying gaseous free radicals has been employed for chain reactions in liquid monomers, The half-life of the photochemically initiated polystyrene free radical has been found tO be 0.088 +- 0.015 seconds. A simple extension of the technique should also give absolute values of the propagation rate constant and the chain transfer constant.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1952
Accession Number
AD0004712

Entities

People

  • Carl Heffelfinger
  • George Goldfinger

Organizations

  • University at Buffalo

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chain Reactions
  • Chemical Compounds
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Dielectric Polymers
  • Free Radicals
  • Military Research
  • Polystyrenes
  • Styrenes

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  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Polymer Science and Technology