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RADICAL POLYMERIZATION [1 record]

Record 1 2014-04-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plastics Manufacturing
DEF

A chain polymerization in which the reactive functional species is a radical.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plasturgie
CONT

Dans les polymérisations radicalaires, l'amorceur est une molécule génératrice, par coupure spontanée ou thermique, de tronçons fugaces appelés radicaux libres portant des valences libres, c'est-à-dire non liées à un motif atomique. [...] La phase de croissance est une réaction en chaîne [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Fabricación de plásticos
DEF

Polimerización en cadena en la cual la especie funcional reactiva es un radical.

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