Essays Tagged: "Polyvinyl chloride"

Plastic recycling

ity grade resins are more widely used and include polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene and PVC (polyvinyl chloride).Engineering grade resins are generally more difficult to process but have charac ...

(8 pages) 196 0 3.8 Sep/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Hydroponics

(4 pages) 69 0 4.6 Mar/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Agriculture

Agent orange the chemical used in the vietnam war.

filiated with paper mills, which use chlorine bleaching in their process and with the production of Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) plastics. The TCDD that can be found in Agent Orange is thought to be harmf ...

(2 pages) 102 4 4.0 Aug/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

How is hydrogen chloride produced in industry and lab, its uses and preacautions to its hazards

HCl is a strong acid.The second use of hydrogen chloride is in the production of vinyl chloride or polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Polyvinyl chloride (PVC), also known as "vinyl," is produced in several st ...

(3 pages) 29 0 5.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Agent Orange

filiated with paper mills, which use chlorine bleaching in their process and with the production of Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) plastics. The TCDD that can be found in Agent Orange is thought to be harmf ...

(6 pages) 46 0 3.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

Biology Relating To Construction Management

in low impact buildings. Another building material that some believe hurts the biological world is Polyvinyl Chloride. Joe Thornton says in his book “In the last 40 years, polyvinyl chloride pla ... 2007http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/12/21/103650Thornton, Joe. 2003. Environmental Impacts of Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) Building Materials.http://www.healthybuilding.net/pvc/Thornton_Enviro_Impac ...

(3 pages) 21 0 0.0 Aug/2007

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Core 1 Notes: Production of Materials

mon namesDescribe the uses of the polymers made from the above monomers in terms of their propertiesPolyvinyl Chloride (PVC)- rigid because the chlorine side group is larger than hydrogen. This makes ...

(16 pages) 34 1 4.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Plastic Recycling

ted in 1928. "The 1930s were the glory years for the development of new synthetic polymers" such as polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and polystyrene (PS) (3, p.3). With the discovery of 'accelerated' polymeri ... esin CodeDefinitionPolyethylene terephthalatePolypropyleneHigh density polyethylenePolystyreneVinyl/polyvinyl chloride (PVC)OtherLow density polyethylene(5)Polyethylene (PE) is used in a wide variety ...

(11 pages) 23 0 0.0 Nov/2009

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Security analysis

(4 pages) 2 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

business review

(4 pages) 1 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies