Fire Retardancy of mineral fillers in EVA copolymers

Witkowski, Artur orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-0005-7520, Hollingberry, Luke A. and Hull, T Richard orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-7970-4208 (2012) Fire Retardancy of mineral fillers in EVA copolymers. In: Fire and Polymers VI: New Advances in Flame Retardant Chemistry and Science. ACS Symposium Series (1118). American Chemical Society (ACS), Washington, DC, USA, pp. 97-111. ISBN 978-0-841-22780-4

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bk-2012-1118.ch007

Abstract

Naturally occurring mixtures of huntite and hydromagnesite have unexpectedly high leveles of fire retardancy when compared to alumium hydroxide or magnesium hydroxide in ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer. This is ascribed to the platy nature of the huntite, which prevents escape of fuel.


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