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dehydrochlorination [dē‚hī·drō‚klȯr·ə′nā·shən] (biochemistry) Removal of hydrogen and chlorine or hydrogen chloride from a compound. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| This is especially true for both rigid and plasticized PVC, where many pigments are incompatible with the high acidity caused by PVC's gradual dehydrochlorination outdoors. p,p'-DDT is metabolized to p,p'-DDD and p,p'-DDE by reductive dechlorination and dehydrochlorination, respectively (Esaac and Matsumura 1980; Kitamura et al. This is explainable because during the process of vulcanization these highly chlorinated polymers are subject to effective dehydrochlorination (for example, by ZnO that is always present in rubber mixes) resulting in unsaturation in the chain of polymers that is easily destroyed by ozone attack. |
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