- Author
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Silvey, D. H.
- Title
- Fire Retardants in Rubber Compounds for Mine Service.
- Book or Conf
- Fire Retardant Chemicals Association. Improved Fire Safety from Flame Retardancy. Regulations, Standards, Test Methods, Toxicity and Representative Applications. Annual Meetings. November 7-9, 1979 and March 23-26, 1980.,
['Washington, DC', 'Williamsburg, VA'],
189-202 p.,
1980
- Keywords
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fire retardants
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rubber
- Abstract
- The use of additives to achieve flame retardance in flammable rubber polymers suffers from too little applied sicentific technology. The ability to achieve Fire Resistant compounds has been utilized for 50 years, but like many of the capabilities of the rubber industry in achieving product functionality for a particular end use, the embryonic stage was an art rather than a science. Our current level of technology has been enhanced by considerable investigation into fire retardants in plastic materials; and, investigations involving pyrolysis of elastomers. However, the analysis and mechanics of the function and performance of flame retardants in rubber compounds, is only now being studied with modern research techniques to yield a better understandiang of the physio-chemical kinetics of the rubber, the flame, and flame interface.