摘 要: | Autooxidation processes of free radicals trapped in γ irradiated F46 copolymer in vacuum at room temperature were studied by means of ESR. It is shown that these processes are under the dual control of both the diffusion of oxygen and the total concentration of free radicals, and they are independent of the autooxidation reaction rate constant. In general, the diffusion constant calculated by simple diffusion equation is an apparent diffusion constant, it is a function of the total concentration of free radicals. Only when the total concentration of free radicals is low enough (in our case n-2X10^1^7 spins/g), the apparent diffusion constant is close to its real value on unirradiated sample. By the method given in this paper, the diffusion constant of oxygen has been calculated to be 1.6X10^-^7 cm^2/sec at 20`C for F46 film obtained by suspension polymerization.
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