Supersonic jet spectrometry of thermally decomposed products from polystyrene and polyalpha-methylstyrene.
Polystyrene and polyalpha-methylstyrene are thermally decomposed, and the products are measured by fluorescence spectrometry and multiphoton ionization spectrometry. The monomers are found to be major products from both the polymers, but many other chemical species, including dimers and trimers, are also observed. The present instrument is applied to a mixture sample containing these two polymers, and the components included are selectively determined using this hyphenated technique.
Imasaka
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Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University Hakozaki, Fukuoka 812, Japan.
Hozumi
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Ishibashi
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