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Main Title Residual Monomers in Acrylic and Modacrylic Fibers and Fabrics.
Author Finkel, Joe M. ; James, Ruby H. ; Miller, Herbert C. ;
CORP Author Southern Research Inst., Birmingham, AL.;Environmental Protection Agency, Washinton, DC. Office of Toxic Substances.
Year Published 1979
Report Number SORI-EAS-79-504; EPA-68-01-4746; EPA-560/11-80-003;
Stock Number PB80-129166
Additional Subjects Acrylic resins ; Chemical analysis ; Textile industry ; Acrylonitrile ; Samples ; Vinylidene chloride resins ; Fabrics ; Gas chromatography ; Mass spectroscopy ; Adsorption ; Desorption ; Industrial hygiene ; Monomers ; Indoor air pollution ; Air pollution detection ; Flame ionization ; Ethylene/bromo
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NTIS  PB80-129166 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
The report deals with the detection and quantitation of acrylonitrile, vinylidene chloride, and vinyl bromide, which are used as monomers in the production of acrylic and modacrylic fibers. The amounts of monomers evolved from samples of carpets, fibers, and fabrics at 50C and 50% relative humidity were determined by gas chromatography with a flame ionization detector and by direct insertion probe mass spectroscopy. The results of the gas chromatographic studies indicate that detectable amounts of residual acrylonitrile, vinylidene chloride, and vinyl bromide were not released from the carpet, fiber, and fiber samples under the conditions selected for analysis. Direct insertion mass spectrometry indicated that methyl bromide was evolved from all of the fiber samples and from two of the three carpet samples. From the remaining carpet sample, three halogenated compounds--dibromo-dichloroethanol, tetrabromoethanol, and tribromochloroethanol--were identified. Traces of fatty acids were found in all of the samples, and sulfur dioxide was evolved from all of the samples except the fabric sample.