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vinyl chloride

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vinyl chloride
n.
A flammable gas, CH2:CHCl, used as a monomer for polyvinyl chloride.

vinyl chloride
n
(Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) a colourless flammable gaseous unsaturated compound made by the chlorination of ethylene and used as a refrigerant and in the manufacture of PVC; chloroethylene; chloroethene. Formula: CH:CHCl

vinyl chloride
A flammable gas used to make polyvinyl chloride. Chemical formula: C2H3Cl.


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Donald Witenhafer, a polymer chemist whose inventions in PVC polymerization ended the threat of cancer caused by vinyl chloride emissions during resin production.
All copolymer dispersions that contain vinyl chloride will be renamed Vin-nol [R].
The first phase has the following plants: a 100,000 t/y polyvinyl chloride (PVC) unit brought on stream in mid-1999 to replace an 80,000 t/y plant; a 100,000 t/y vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) unit, which was expanded in mid-1999; a unit to produce 126,000 t/y chlorine and caustic soda; and an 82,000 t/y sodium hydroxide unit added to the complex in 1992 (see background in down3EgyptPetchJan16-06).
 
 
 
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