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Handbook of Plastics Analysis
Hubert Lobo and Jose V. Bonilla.
Publisher: Marcel Dekker, Inc. 270 Madison Ave, New York,
NY 10016 ISBN: 8-8247-0708-7
Assurance of quality in raw materials, control over production,
and a basic understanding of criteria for performance
all require a sure and complete
knowledge of analytical methods for plastics. The present
volume organizes the vast world of plastics analysis into
a relatively compact form. A plastics engineer will find
familiar territory in such subjects as
rheometry, differential scanning calorimetry, and measurement
of thermal properties. Polymer physicists and chemists
will be at home with spectroscopic analyses, liquid chromatography,
and nuclear magnetic resonance. All these topics and many
more are covered in twelve chapters written by an impressive
array of experts drawn from industry and academia.
Perhaps the main message to be taken from this work is
that the day of laboratory tinkerers and home-built machines
seems to have come to an end. There was a time when reasonable
shop facilities and a few inexpensive instruments would
suffice to answer most questions for the plastics producer,
supplier or customer. As described in this book, accurate,
meaningful measurements of properties today invariably
call for
great precision in machinery as well as sophisticated
computing and interpretation, none of which comes cheap.
In research as in production, time and equipment represent
precious components of any budget. Unneeded or redundant
analyses can be avoided when the whole world of analysis
is surveyed. A thorough understanding of the limits and
possibilities of each of the methods described here will
allow the user to get the maximum return on investment
whether it is in computers, instruments, analytical services,
or laboratory time.
- Ferdinand Rodriguez is Professor Emeritus, School
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University
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