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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