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    Chloroprene (IUPAC name 2-chlorobuta-1,3-diene) is a chemical compound with the molecular formula CH2=CCl−CH=CH2. Chloroprene is a colorless volatile...
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    Neoprene (redirect from Chloroprene rubber)
    a family of synthetic rubbers that are produced by polymerization of chloroprene. Neoprene exhibits good chemical stability and maintains flexibility...
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  • hydrochlorinations of alkynes in producing the chlorinated monomers chloroprene and vinyl chloride, which are subsequently polymerized to make polychloroprene...
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    in 2000). In 1969, DuPont opened a plant to manufacture the chemical chloroprene, the main ingredient in neoprene, in Reserve, Louisiana on the border...
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    Examples include silicone rubber via room temperature vulcanizing and chloroprene rubber (neoprene) using metal oxides. Vulcanization can be defined as...
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    emitting chloroprene which is defined as "likely to be carcinogenic to humans" by the EPA. Up to 755 times the safe air value of 0.2 μg/m3 of chloroprene has...
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    chloroprene; elastomeric polymers are often made with a high percentage of conjugated diene monomers such as 1,3-butadiene, isoprene, or chloroprene higher...
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    of 1,3-butadiene is yet another route.[citation needed] At one time, chloroprene (2-chloro-1,3-butadiene), an industrially important monomer, was produced...
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  • million and $945 million. In October 2015, DuPont sold the Neoprene chloroprene rubber business to Denka Performance Elastomers, a joint venture of Denka...
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    polyisoprene (IR for isoprene rubber) Polybutadiene (BR for butadiene rubber) Chloroprene rubber (CR), polychloroprene, neoprene Butyl rubber (copolymer of isobutene...
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    intermediates in the industrial production of chloroprene. They are main impurity in technical grade chloroprene. Chloroprene is a monomer for the production of...
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  • made commercial Neoprene possible by producing a soft, plastic form of chloroprene that could be processed by the rubber industry. Early accounts of the...
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    April 1930, one of Carothers' staff, Dr. Arnold M. Collins, isolated chloroprene, a liquid which polymerized to produce a solid material that resembled...
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    polymerize formaldehyde to poly(oxymethylene). It improves the bonding of chloroprene to wire. The supply and use of this compound is restricted in Europe...
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    and perspiration. The textile industry turned to neoprene (polymer of chloroprene), a type of synthetic rubber, as well as another more commonly used elastomer...
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    lift, and is usually made of a highly flexible latex material, though chloroprene may also be used. The unit that performs the actual measurements and...
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    pickling agent in chrome tanning and helps to impede vulcanization of chloroprene in synthetic rubber production. In processing cotton for disposable cotton...
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    rubber used in tires, and isoprene is the precursor to natural rubber. Chloroprene is related but it is a synthetic monomer. An important reaction for conjugated...
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    polycarbonates. Rubbers include natural rubber, styrene-butadiene rubber, chloroprene, and butadiene rubber. Plastics are generally classified as commodity...
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  • it bounced. Further analysis showed that the mass was a polymer of chloroprene, formed with chlorine from the cuprous chloride catalyst. Collins had...
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  • polymers. Outcomes of the long range research included a synthetic, chloroprene rubber, but the most notable invention came in 1938 with the invention...
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    to still other synthetic rubbers are prepared from butadiene. One is chloroprene. Smaller amounts of butadiene are used to make adiponitrile, a precursor...
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    balloons: TA is a rubber/latex balloon and was developed in 1940. CR is a chloroprene balloon and was developed in 1966. TX is a latex balloon and was developed...
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  • 4-Chloronitrobenzene Chlorophenoxy herbicides 4-Chloro-ortho-phenylenediamine Chloroprene Chlorothalonil Chrysene CI Acid Red 114 CI Basic Red 9 CI Direct Blue...
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  • N-Methyl-2-thiazolidinethione, an accelerator for the vulcanization of chloroprene rubbers. Thiazolidines functionalized with carbonyls at the 2 and 4 positions...
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  • n.o.s. UN 1989 3 Aldehydes, n.o.s. UN 1990 9 Benzaldehyde UN 1991 3 Chloroprene, inhibited UN 1992 3 Flammable liquids, toxic, n.o.s. UN 1993 3 Flammable...
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  • Non-structural. Epoxy resins, phenol based and rubber based adhesives using chloroprene and neoprene are Structural. These adhesives can be used in automobile...
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  • Engineering Institute. Nairit was also the name of around 30 types of chloroprene synthetic rubber. They were named for Nairi. The Nairi brandy is produced...
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    ethylenethioureas, which are used as accelerators for the vulcanization of chloroprene rubbers. The compound is prepared by reaction of N-methylethanolamine...
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  • polychloroprene is a synthetic rubber produced by the polymerization of chloroprene. It is used in a wide variety of applications, such as electrical insulation...
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