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A well-known technique for converting glassy polymers into flexible materials is to incorporate 'plasticiser'.

Within industry ammonium sulfamate is used as a flame retardant, a plasticiser and in electro-plating.

It is an important phthalate-free plasticiser, being the diester of terephthalic acid and the branched-chain 2-ethylhexanol.

Parker and Braden have developed soft acrylic materials where the plasticiser does not leach out, but these have other problems.

For plastics such as PVC, the more plasticiser added, the lower its 'cold flex temperature' will be.

Hence the polymer paste used for the impression material contains this imine-terminated polyether, with a filler and plasticiser.

The water, which acts as a plasticiser, will then reduce its tensile strength, but increase its elongation and tear strength.

This material consisted of 88.3% RDX and a mineral oil-based plasticiser and phlegmatiser.

Flexibiliser and plasticiser such as sorbitol and glycerine are added so the starch can also be processed thermo-plastically.

Softgel shells are a combination of gelatin, water, opacifier and a plasticiser such as glycerin and/or sorbitol(s).

The properties of the hydrogel are influenced both by the structure of the polymer network and by the water, which acts just like a conventional plasticiser.

There are paints called plastisols/organosols, which are made by blending PVC granules with a plasticiser.

By itself it was too sensitive to handle, so it was usually mixed with a plasticiser, which would give it some of the same chemical elements as plastique.

They admit that some people are eating too much of the chemical plasticiser (DEHA) found in PVC clingfilm.

The current report questions the present use of a replacement plasticiser, acetyl tributyl citrate (ATBC), which was developed for use in microwaves.

Although there is no evidence that the plasticiser can damage health, the scientists urge that new toxicological studies be carried out to allay fears that existing cling films might be carcinogens.

Their concern was over dietary intake of the plasticiser di-2-XXXX ethylhexyl (DEHA) used in PVC cling film and known to cause cancer in laboratory mice.

In May 2011, a scandal broke out in Taiwan when many drinks were found to contain DEHP, a plasticiser which was added as a clouding agent in order to improve the appearance of the drinks.

The toy was supposed to contain the non-toxic chemical 1,5-pentanediol (a viscous oily liquid used as plasticiser), but instead contained 1,4-butanediol, which is metabolised into the drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB, an anaesthetic used as a recreational drug).

DEHP has been used as a plasticiser in medical devices such as intravenous tubing and bags, catheters, nasogastric tubes, dialysis bags and tubing, and blood bags and transfusion tubing, and air tubes.

Composition C-2 contained a slightly smaller proportion of RDX, but used an explosive plasticiser, which contained tetryl, nitrocellulose and a mixture of nitroaromatics produced during the manufacture of TNT (containing trinitrotoluene, dinitrotoluene and mononitrotoluene), and a trace of solvent.