Thermal and thermo-oxidative degradation of polystyrene in the presence of bromine-containing flame retardants

The kinetic of thermal and thermo-oxidative degradation of polystyrene in the presence of bromine-containing flame retardants was investigated. It was shown that the kinetics is limited by diffusion in air and by the processes occurring at the interface in helium.The flame retardants affect the degradation of polystyrene both chemically and physically, and change the mechanism of the limiting stage to some extent.

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Zusammenfassung Die Kinetik des thermischen und thermo-oxidativen Abbaus von Polystyren in Gegenwart bromhaltiger Flammschutzmittel wurde untersucht. Es wird gezeigt, dass die Reaktion durch die Diffusion in Luft bzw. durch die Grenzflächenvorgänge in Helium begrenzt wird.Die Flammschutzmittel beeinflussen den Abbau von Polystyren sowohl chemisch als auch physikalisch und verändern im gewissen Masse auch den Mechanismus des geschwindigkeitsbestimmenden Schritts.

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Quinoid pigments of echinodermata VII. Anthraquinones of the starfishHenricia leviuscula

Summary A preliminary study has been made of starfish of the family Echinasteridae for their content of anthraquinone pigments.A sulfated anthraquinone — the Na salt of isorhodoptilometrin 2-sulfate has been isolated from the starfishHenricia leviuscula.Pacific Ocean Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Far Eastern Scientific Center of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Vladivostok. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp. 148–151, March–April, 1979.     

Crystal and molecular structures of 1,8-diacetyl-3-methyl-DL-allantoin

DL-Allantoin (I) has been isolated from an alcoholic extract of a marine spongeAxinellidae gen. sp., and derivatives of it have been obtained: 1, 8-diacetyl-DL-allantoin (II) and 1,8-diacetyl-3-methyl-DL-allantoin (III). The crystal and molecular structures of (III) have been established by X-ray structural analysis.Pacific Ocean Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Far Eastern Branch, USSR Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 3, pp. 422–426, May–June, 1988.     

Acoustic waves in two-fraction mixtures of gas with vapor,droplets and solid particles of different materials and sizes in the presence of phase transitions

The propagation of acoustic waves in two-fraction mixtures of gas with vapor, droplets and solid particles of different materials and sizes in the presence of phase transitions is investigated. A mathematical model is presented, the dispersion and wave equations are obtained, and the dispersion curves are calculated. The relative sonic velocity and the attenuation decrement on the wave length are analyzed as functions of the oscillation frequency for an “air-vapor-liquid droplet-sand particle” mixture. Using the fast Fourier transform, the propagation of pulse disturbances in the two-fraction disperse systems is calculated.     

Problems with normal derivatives in the boundary conditions for a hyperbolic equation with deviating arguments of the unknown function

For a hyperbolic equation of a form earlier unstudied, we consider two problems with normal derivatives in the boundary conditions. For each of these problems, we prove the existence of a unique reduction to the Goursat problem.