PROCEEDINGS OF THE SEVENTEENTH

NORTH AMERICANTHERMAL ANALYSIS SOCIETY

CONFERENCE

VOLUME I

EDITOR: Charles M. Earnest

Department of Chemistry

Berry College

Rome, Georgia

1988NATAS

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THE SEVENTEENTHNORTH AMERICAN THERMAL ANALYSIS SOCIETY

CONFERENCE

Technical Program

Monday Morning: GENERAL SESSION (Center Ballroom)October 10

8:30 OPENING REMARKS Hal FerrariNATAS PresidentMartha SteinerConference Chairman

8:50 METTLER AWARD PRESENTATIONMETTLER AWARD ADDRESS: CONTROLLEDTRANSFORMATION RATE THERMAL ANALYSIS:THE HIDDEN FACE OF THERMAL ANALYSIS,Jean Rouquerol (CNRS, Marseilles, France).

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SESSION I (Center Ballroom)TUTORIAL: E. Turi (Polytechnic Univ.), Chairman

Monday Morning E. Turi, Presiding

October 10

10:00 INTRODUCTION by E. Turi

10:05 (1) WATER IN POLYMERS, H.E. Bair (AT&T Bell Labs)10:45 (2) COMPOSITES: PREPARATION, CHARACTERIZA-

TION, AND APPLICATON, James C. Seferis (Univer-sity of Washington).

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SESSION IIA (Narcissus/Orange Blossom Room)

SYMPOSIUM ON THERMAL ANALYSIS OF BIOLOGICALSYSTEMS

R.J. Williams (U.S. Red Cross) and D.S. Reid (Univ. of California,Davis), Co-Chairmen

R.J. Williams, Presiding

10:00 (3) MODELING OF THERMAL PROCESSES IN A HIGHPRECISION HEAT FLOW DSC, R.L. Biltonen (Univ.of Virginia).

10:40 (4) THE USE OF DSC IN CONJUNCTION WITH CON-TROLLED TEMPERATURE CRYOMICROSCOPY TOSTUDY THE PHASE RELATIONSHIPS IN FROZENAQUEOUS SYSTEMS, David Reid (Univ. of California,Davis).

11:20 (5) SIMULTANEOUS DTA IN DETERMINATION OFELECTRICAL RESISTANCE OF AQUEOUS SOLU-TIONS DURING FREEZING AND THAWING,Alan McKenzie (University of Washington).

SESSION III (Azelia/Begonia Room)GENERAL PAPERS: A.R. McGhie (Univ. of Pennsylvania)

ChairmanSESSION ON POLYMERS

Monday Morning L.W. Whiting, PresidingOctober 10

10:00 (6) THE ROLE OF CARBON ON THE THERMAL STA-BILITY OF POLY(ARYL-ETHER-ETHER-KETONE)COMPOSITES: 1. A CRYSTALLIZATION STUDYUSING DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORI-METRY, M. Day, J.D. Cooney, T. Suprunchuk andD.M. Wiles (N.R.C. Canada).

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10:20 (7) THE ROLE OF CARBON ON THE THERMAL STA-BILITY OF POLY (ARYL-ETHER-ETHER KETONE)COMPOSITES. 2. AN ISOTHERMAL WEIGHT LOSSKINETIC STUDY, M. Day. J.D. Cooney andD.M. Wiles (N.R.C. Canada).

10:40 (8) CHARACTERIZATION OF NON-MDA CONTAININGBISMALEIMIDE RESINS, David A. Spieker andFred N. Larsen (Allied-Signal, Inc.).

1100 (9) MEMORY EFFECTS IN POLYMERS STUDIED BYTHERMAL AND COMPLEMENTARY TECH-NIQUES. I - ORIENTATIONAL MEMORY,Y.P. Khanna and A.C. Reimschussel (Allied-Signal).

11:20 (10) MEMORY EFFECTS IN POLYMERS STUDIED BYTHERMAL AND COMPLEMENTARY TECH-NIQUES. II - PROCESSING INDUCED MEMORY,Y.P. Khanna, R. Kumar and A.C. Reimschussel(Allied-Signal).

11:40 (11) MEMORY EFFECTS IN POLYMERS STUDIED BYTHERMAL AND COMPLEMENTARY TECH-NIQUES. Ill - ORIGIN & RELATIONSHIP TOPOLYMER STRUCTURE, Y.P. Khanna. P. Kumarand A.C. Reimschussel (Allied-Signal).

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SESSION IV (Poinsettia/Quince Room)GENERAL PAPERS: A.R. McGhie (Univ. of Pennsylvania)

ChairmanSESSION ON INORGANIC MATERIALS

Monday Morning R.G. Ferrillo (American Cyanamid), PresidingOctober 10

10:00 (12) THERMAL STABILITY/STRUCTURAL STUDIES OFSILVER OXIDE (AgO) CATHODE MATERIAL,S. Dallek. K.M. O'Neill, D.R. Glen, B.F. Larrick,A.N. Mansour, C.R. Anderson and M.K. Norr (NavalSurface Weapons Center).

10:20 (13) A STUDY OF THE DECOMPOSITION OF HIGHERCOBALT ARSENIDES BY THERMAL ANALYSIS,S.A. Mikhail, A.M. Turcotte and W.S. Bowman (Energy,Mines & Resources, Canada).

10:40 (14) INVESTIGATION OF THE OXIDATION OFSKUTTERUDITE BY THERMAL ANALYSIS,LJ. Wilson and S.A. Mikhail (Energy, Mines &Resources, Canada).

11:00 (15) THERMAL HAZARDS ANALYSIS OF AMMONIUMNITRATE-BASED COMPOSITES, J.C. Oxley.S.M. Kaushik, N. Gilson (New Mexico Tech.).

11:20 (16) A THERMAL ANALYSIS STUDY ON SILVEROXALATE, P. Dollimore and T. Evans (Univ. ofToledo).

11:40 (17) BRIAN HIGGINS, THE FIRST THERMAL ANALYST.GENIUS OR FRAUD? J. Adams (Univ. of Toledo)

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SESSION V (Poinsettia/Quince Room)

SYMPOSIUM ON THERMAL ANALYSIS OFPOLYVINYLCHLORIDE

Richard Chartoff (Univ. of Dayton) Chairman

Monday Afternoon R.P. Chartoff, PresidingOctober 10

1-30 (18) A THERMAL ANALYTICAL STUDY OF CROSS-LINKING OF PVC, P. Dahl and T. Hjertberg(Chalmers University, Sweden).

1-50 (19) A NEW APPROACH TO PVC CRYSTALLINEMORPHOLOGY THROUGH MELT RHEOLOGYBEHAVIOR AND DSC OF THE HOMOPOLYMER,Alain Michel (CNRS, Lyon, France).

2:10 (20) INFLUENCE OF THE MELT RHEOLOGICALBEHAVIOR IN DEGRADATION AND STABILIZA-TION OF PVC, Alain Michel (CNRS, Lyon, France).

2:30 (21) TOTAL CHARACTERIZATION OF PVC USINGTHERMAL ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES, J.S. Meyer,B. Twombly, R.B. Cassel (Perkin-Elmer).

2:50 (22) CHARACTERIZATION OF THE THERMAL DE-GRADATION OF POLY (VINYL CHLORIDE) BYTGA/APCI-MS AND TGA/FTIR, J. Khorami andR.B. Prime (University of Sherbrooke).

3:10 (23) ULTRA PRECISION TGA WITH HIGHLY CON-DENSABLE EFFLUENTS, J. Czarnecki and D. Thumin(Cahn Instruments).

SESSION VI (Poinsettia/Quince Room)STUDENT AWARD SYMPOSIUM: A.R. McGhie, Chairman

Monday Afternoon A.R. McGhie, PresidingOctober 10

3:40 (24) STUDENT AWARD WINNER: THERMAL INTER-ACTIONS IN ORIENTED POLYMERIC MATERIALS:SHRINKAGE, CRYSTALLIZATION & MELTING,D.C. Sun and J.H. Magill (Univ. of Pittsburgh).

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(25) GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE SHIFT OFSILICA FILLED ACRYLIC COMPOSITES, C.G. Reidand A.R. Greenberg (Univ. of Colorado).

(26) PHOTOCALORIMETRIC INVESTIGATION OFPHASE SEPARATION IN THE POLYMERIZATIONOF A CHOLESTERIC MONOMER, C.P. Chawla.A.C. Griffin and C.E. Hoyle (Univ. of Southern Miss.).

(27) THERMAL CHARACTERIZATION FOR REACTIONSOF AN AROMATIC-ETHER BISMALEIMIDE WITHAMINES, J. Cho. R.P. Chartoff and J.A. Harvey(Univ. of Dayton).

(28) EFFECT OF LITHIUM ON THE THERMAL CHARAC-TERISTICS OF LITHIUM ALUMINOSILICATEGELS, H. deLambilly and L.C. Klein (Rutgers Univ.).

(29) A NEW VISCOELASTIC MODEL FOR THE GLASSTRANSITION PHENOMENA OF AMORPHOUSPOLYMERS, R.M. Shav. Jr. and J.M. Carruthers(Purdue University).

(30) THE USE OF DSC TO STUDY THE KINETICS OFHETEROGENEOUS AND HOMOGENEOUSNUCLEATION OF ICE IN AQUEOUS SYSTEMS,S rharoenrein and D.S. Reid (Univ. of California,Davis).

(31) DETERMINING POLYMERIC GLASS TRANSITIONSUSING THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS,M.P. Farr (Perm State Univ.).

SESSION VII-A (Camelia/Dogwood Room)SYMPOSIUM ON DYNAMIC MECHANICAL AND DIELECTRIC

THERMAL ANALYSISCM. Neag (Glidden) and P.V. Ronca (Canadian GE), Co-chairmen

Monday Afternoon CM. Neag, PresidingOctober 10

1:30 (32) PLENARY LECTURE: DYNAMIC MECHANICALANALYSIS OF POLYMERS AND COMPOSITES,James C. Seferis (University of Washington).

2:10 (33) DMA AND THERMAL ANALYSIS OF CRYSTAL-LINITY DEVELOPMENT IN KEL-F 800 ANDTATB/KEL-F800 PLASTIC BONDED EXPLOSIVES.PART I - KEL-F800, P.M. Hoffman. F.M. Matthewsand CO. Pruneda (Lawrence Livermore National Lab).

2:30 (34) CURE AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ANEPOXY-POLYESTER POWDER COATING,CM. Neag, D.E. Miles (Glidden Co.) and R.B. Prime(IBM).

2:50 (35) GELATION PHENOMENON STUDIED BY CALORI-METRIC, MECHANICAL AND DIELECTRIC TECH-NIQUES, Y.P. Khanna. R. Kumar and S. Das (Allied-Signal, Inc.).

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3:30 (36) A GENERAL METHOD FOR THE CHARACTERIZA-TION OF THERMOSETTING SYSTEMS BY TOR-SION AL BRAID ANALYSIS: THE TIME-TEMPERA-TURE-TRANSFORMATION CURING DIAGRAM,John Gillham (Princeton University).

3:50 (37) EFFECT OF CURE CONDITIONS ON DYNAMICMECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF TWO PARTEPOXY ADHESIVES, G. Courval (Alcan International).

4:10 (38) THE EFFECT OF COMPOSITION OF ETHYLENE-VINYL ACETATE COPOLYMERS ON THEIRTHERMAL & RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES,Alan T. Riga (Lubrizol Corp)

4:30 (39) ESTIMATION OF POLYMER CRYSTALLINITY BYDMA, Y.P. Khanna (Allied-Signal, Inc.).

4:50 (40) DMA CONFIRMATION OF PHASE DISTRIBUTIONIN A RUBBER MODIFIED THERMOSETTINGBISMALEIMIDE, Richard P. Chartoff, J. Cho andP. Carlin (University of Dayton).

5:10 (41) DYNAMIC MECHANICAL MONITORING OFSTRUCTURAL CHANGES IN LEAD-TIN SOLDERSINDUCED BY ANNEALING, L.T. Shi (IBM, WatsonResearch Center).

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SESSION II-B (Narcissus/Orange Blossom Room)SYMPOSIUM ON THERMAL ANALYSIS OF BIOLOGICAL

SYSTEMSR.J. Williams (U.S. Red Cross) and

D.S. Reid (Univ. of California, Davis), Co-Chairmen

Monday Afternoon D.S. Reid, PresidingOctober 10

1-30 (42) COMPARISON OF ISOTHERMAL AND NONISO-THERMAL CRYSTALLIZATION IN AQUEOUSSOLUTIONS OF POLY ALCOHOLS DURINGWARMING, Patrick Mehl (U.S. Red Cross).

1:50 (43) THERMAL BEHAVIOR OF THE CHOLESTEROL-REDUCING DRUG LOVASTATIN, John P. Elder(Merck, Sharp, Dohme).

2:10 (44) THERMAL ANALYSIS OF INTERFACIAL TENSIONAS A COMPONENT OF FREEZING STRESS,C Robert Olien (Michigan State University).

2:30 (45) GLASSY STATES IN CORN EMBRYOS, R.J. Williamsand A.C. Leopold (U.S. Red Cross).

2:50 (46) THERMAL TRANSITIONS ASSOCIATED VIA-BILITY OF SEEDS EXPOSED TO SUB-FREEZ-ING TEMPERATURES, Chris Vertucci (ColoradoState University).

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3:30 (48) THERMOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS ESTABLISHESLIQUID-LIQUID PHASE SEPARATIONS IN FROZENLIVING WOOD, Alan Hirsch (U.S. Red Cross).

3:50 (49) DETERMINATION OF COUNTRY OF ORIGIN OFPISTACHIO NUTS BY THERMAL ANALYSIS,Susan M. Dyszel and B.C. Pettitt (U.S. Customs Service).

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4:10 (50) ASSESSMENT OF WATER STATUS BY PSC FORCRYOPRESERVATION OF PORMANT BUPS,C. Stushnoff. C.W. Vertucci and L.E. Towill(Univ. of Saskatchewan).

4:30 (51) ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ICE NUCEI IN SUCROSE:H2O GLASSES ANP FRACTURE INTERFACES,RJ. Williams and P.L. Carnahan (U.S. Red Cross).

SESSION VIII (Azelia/Begonia Room)GENERAL PAPERS: A.R. McGhie (Univ. of Pennsylvania)

ChairmanSESSION ON INSTRUMENTATION

Monday Afternoon L.W. Whiting (Pow), PresidingOctober 10

1:30 (52) ELEVATEP TEMPERATURE PIFFUSE REFLECT-ANCE SPECTROSCOPY, P.P. Gam and R.A. Fifer(Ballistic Research Lab, Aberdeen).

1:50 (53) A NEW INSTRUMENT TO MEASURE PIELECTRICPROPERTIES, T.H. Grentzer. K.B. Hendrick, P.S. Gill,L.C Thomas and CL. Jaworski (PuPont).

2:10 (54) INTROPUCTION OF THE NEW SERIES 92THERMAL ANALYSERS (PSC, PTA, TGA,TGA-PTA), Pierre Le Parlouer (SETARAM).

2:30 (55) A NOVEL MULTISAMPLE PRESSURE PTAAPPARATUS FOR OXIPATION TESTING OF OILS,FATS ANP POLYMERS, E. Gimzewski (B.P. ResearchCenter, U.K.).

2:50 (56) THERMOPYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF SOLIPPOLYMERS PURING UNIAXIAL EXTENSION,G.W. Adams, R.J. Farris and J.L. Goldfarb(Univ. of Mass.).

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3-30 (57) MEASUREMENT OF THE SPECIFIC HEAT &ENERGETICS OF CURING ANP PECOMPO-SITION OF A GLASS FILLEP POLYMER COM-POSITE, J.B. Henderson, W.P. Emmerich andE. Wassmer (Univ. of Rhode Island).

3-50 (58) HEAT CAPACITY MEASUREMENTS USING ASETARAM C80 HEAT FLUX CALORIMETER,J.J. Tria and Carol R. Weiss (Monsanto).

4:10 (59) A UNIQUE PHOTOCALORIMETRIC SYSTEMFOR THE INVESTIGATION OF UV SENSITIVEMECHANISMS, W. Kunze and J.S. Mever (Perkin-Elmer).

SESSION VII-B (Poinsettia/Quince Room)SYMPOSIUM ON PYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANP PIELECTRIC

THERMAL ANALYSISCM. Neag (Glidden) and P.V. Ronca (Canadian G.E.), Co-Chairmen

Tuesday Morning P.V. Ronca, PresidingOctober 11

8:40 (60) PLENARY LECTURE: FREQUENCY DEPENDENTELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING: IN-SITUMONITORING OF CHEMICAL AND RHEO-LOGICAL CHANGES BOTH IN LABORATORY ANDPROCESSING ENVIRONMENT, P. Kranbuehl,M. Hoff, P. Haverty, T. Hamilton, R. Clark andD. Eichinger (College of William and Mary).

9:20 (61) EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE OF DIELECTRICPROPERTIES OF A GRADE OF POLY (VINYLCHLORIDE), B.B. Chowdhury (M. & T. Chemicals).

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9:40 (62) DIELECTRIC CURE MONITORING: A LABORA-TORY AND PRODUCTION TECHNIQUE, D.R. Ray,P.P. Shepard and A.S. Wall (Micromet Instruments).

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10:20 (63) SIMULTANEOUS PYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANPPIELECTRIC MEASUREMENTS PURING CUREOF THERMOSETS, R.E. Wetton. G.M. Foster,J.W.E. Gearing, J. Puncan and J.C Richmond(Polymer Labs).

10:40 (64) DIELECTRIC ANALYSIS OF THERMOPLASTICSAND THERMOSETS, T.M. Grentzer. W.J. Sichina,CL. Jaworski and P.S. Gill (DuPont Instruments).

11:00 (65) DMA AND DSC/DETA OF POLY (ETHYLENEOXIDE)-BASED POLYMER ELECTROLYTES,G. Jones. R. Huq, H. Yang, A.R. McGhie andG.C Farrington (University of Pennsylvania).

SESSION IX-A (Narcissus/Orange Blossom Room)SYMPOSIUM ON LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS

M.T. Shaw (Univ. of Connecticut), Chairman

Tuesday Morning M.T. Shaw, PresidingOctober 12

8:40 (66) PLENARY LECTURE: BLENDS OF LIQUID CRYS-TALS AND POLYMERS, R.A. Weiss (Univ. of Conn.)

9:20 (67) DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY INRELATION TO MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OFPOLYMER LIQUID CRYSTALS AND THEIRPOLYMER BLENDS, W. Brostow, T.S.Dziemianowicz, M. Hess, R. Kosfeld and S.H. Saboe, Jr.(Drexel University).

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9-40 (68) THERMAL AND MECHANICAL ANALYSIS OFLIQUID CRYSTALLINE POLYMER BLENDS,R. Ramanathan, D.G. Baird and D.S. Dane (VA Poly-technic Institute & State University).

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10-20 (69) POLYESTERS: PHASE BEHAVIOUR IN BINARYBLENDS: AMORPHOUS, CRYSTALLINE, LIQUIDCRYSTALS, AND ON TRANSREACTION, J.M. Jonza,E.R. George, M. Kimura, CR. Desper and R.M. Porter(Univ. of Mass.).

10:40 (70) KINETIC STUDY OF MESOPHASE TRANSITIONSIN THERMOTROPIC COPOLYESTERS, Stephen Z.D.Cheng and J.J. Janimak (University of Akron).

11:00 (71) THERMAL CHARACTERIZATION AND KINETICSOF CRYSTALLIZATION OF A THERMOTROPICLIQUID CRYSTAL COPOLYESTER, M.R. Kamal,O. Khennache and S.K. Goyal (McGill University).

SESSION X (Camelia/Dogwood Room)SYMPOSIUM ON SIMULTANEOUS AND COMBINER

TECHNIQUESJen Chiu (Chiu Enterprises), Chairman

Tuesday Morning Jen Chiu, PresidingOctober 11

8:35 INTROPUCTION, Jen Chiu

8:40 (72) PLENARY LECTURE: ANCIENT MATERIALS ANDARTIFACTS OF ASIATIC CULTURES INVESTI-GATED BY SIMULTANEOUS AND COMBINEDTECHNIQUES IN THERMAL ANALYSIS,Hans G. Wiedemann (Mettler Instruments).

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9:20 (73) THE SIMULTANEOUS TG-DSC HI: A NEW DIGI-TAL AND COMPUTER CONTROLLED PRESEN-TATION, Pierre Le Parlouer (SETARAM).

9:40 (74) SIMULTANEOUS SYNCHROTRON X-RAY/DIFFER-ENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY STUDIES OFSEGMENTED BLOCK COPOLYMERS,J.T. Koberstein. A.F. Galambos (Univ. of Connecticut)and T.P. Russell (IBM).

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BY SIMULTANEOUS DSC-XRD-MS, R.A. Newman,J.A. Blazy, T.G. Fawcett, L.F. Whiting, R.A. Stowe(Dow).

10:40 (76) CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYMERS BYTHERMALLY STIMULATED CURRENT (TSC) ANDRELAXATION MAP ANALYSIS (RMA) SPECTRO-SCOPY, J.P. Ibar, A. Bemes, P. Denning, P. Jones,J.R. Saffell, T. Thomas (Solomat).

SESSION XI (Azelia/Begonia Room)SYMPOSIUM ON METALS AND METAL-ORGANICS

R. Charles (Westinghouse), Chairman

Tuesday Morning R. Charles, PresidingOctober 11

8:40 (77) INVESTIGATION OF TITANIUM-BORON REAC-TIONS BY HIGH TEMPERATURE TG/DTA, XRD,AND CALORIMETRY, R. B. Whitaker. C.R. Brown,J.A. McDaniel, C.S. Sebastian, G.C Shockey andD.B. Sullenger (Monsanto Research Corp.).

9:00 (78) DYNAMIC MECHANICAL THERMAL ANALYSIS(DMTA) OF METALS, J.W.E. Gearing, J.S. Fisher,R.E. Wetton, J. Duncan and J.C Richmond (PolymerLaboratories).

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9-20 (79) MAGNETOTHERMOGRAVIMETRICAL ANALYSIS(MTGA) AND TGA OF CARBONYL IRON POWDER,K.H. Chung, C.S. Wu and E.G. Malawer (GAF ChemicalsCorp.).

9-40 (80) GAS FLOW SEPARATION IN TGA OF WHOLEPARTS IN CORROSIVE GASES, J. Czarnecki andD. Thumin (Cahn Instruments).

SESSION XII (Camelia/Dogwood Room)

11:30 NATAS BUSINESS MEETINGHal Ferrari, Presiding

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SESSION IX-B (Narcissus/Orange Blossom Room)SYMPOSIUM ON LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS

M.T. Shaw (Univ. of Connecticut), Chairman

Tuesday Afternoon M.T. Shaw, PresidingOctober 11

1:30 (81) THERMAL TRANSITIONS AND STRUCTUREANALYSIS OF MESOMORPHIC POLYURETHANE,G. Smyth. J. Grebowicz, W.J. MacKnight,P. Stenhouse and S.W. Kantor (Univ. of Massachusetts).

1:50 (82) THERMAL BEHAVIOR OF SOME SILOXANE CON-TAINING MAIN CHAIN LIQUID CRYSTALLINEPOLYMERS, P.M. Haddleton. K. Venkataram,D. Creed, A.C. Griffin and CE. Hoyle (Univ. ofSouthern Mississippi).

2:10 (83) THERMAL CHARACTERIZATION OF CRY-STALLINE POLYIMIDES, Stephen Z.D. Cheng,P.P. Heberer. J.J. Janimak, S.-S. Lien and F.W. Harris(University of Akron).

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2:30 (84) NEW THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALSDERIVED FROM THIOPHENES, R. Cai andE.T. Samulski (Univ. of North Carolina atChapel Hill).

2:50 (85) RELAXATION STUDIES OF LIQUID CRYSTALSIDE CHAIN POLYMERS, J. Duncan. R.W. Wetton,G. Williams and G. Simon (Polymer Laboratories).

3:10 (86) ANALYSIS OF THE LIQUID-LIQUID PHASESEPARATION AND RELATION TO THERMO-REVERSIBLE GELATION OF PBLG SOLUTIONS,CL. Jackson and M.T. Shaw (Univ. of Connecticut).

SESSION VII-C (Poinsettia/Quince Room)SYMPOSIUM ON DYNAMIC MECHANICAL & DIELECTRIC

THERMAL ANALYSISCM. Neag (Glidden) and P.V. Ronca (Canadian G.E.), Co-chairmen

Tuesday Afternoon CM. Neag, PresidingOctober 11

1:30 (87) CURE STUDIES OF EPOXY-AMINE THERMO-SETTING SYSTEMS, W.J. Sichina, T.H. Grentzer,CL. Jaworski and P.S. Gill (DuPont Instruments).

1:50 (88) TIME TEMPERATURE SUPERPOSITIONINGSTUDIES OF THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITES,W.J. Sichina and P.S. Gill (DuPont Instruments).

2:10 (89) ANALYSIS OF MULTICOMPONENT POLYMERSYSTEMS USING DMA, M. Grehlinger and M. Kraft(Rheometrics).

2:30 (90) APPLICATION OF A THERMOMECHANICALANALYSER WITH ENHANCED LOAD FUNCTIONS,R. Gray. N. Matsumori, R. Kinoshita, N. Nakamura, andY. Teramoto (Seiko).

2-50 (91) CHARACTERIZATION OF KEVLAR COMPOSITESWITH THE DUPONT 983 DMA, J.C. Teroskv. Ill andWJ. Sichina (DuPont Instruments).

SESSION X-B (Camelia/Dogwood Room)SYMPOSIUM ON SIMULTANEOUS & COMBINED TECHNIQUES

Jen Chiu (Chiu Enterprises), Chairman

Tuesday Afternoon J. Leckenby (DuPont), PresidingOctober 11

1:30 (92) COMBINED TGA-MS FOR POLYMER STUDIES,J. Leckenby (DuPont) and P. Sales (VG Instruments).

1:50 (93) THE USE OF TG/MS IN THE ANALYSIS OFBIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS, J.C Mav. R.M. Wheeler,A. Del Grosso (FDA).

2:10 (94) STUDY OF THE CURING AND DECOMPOSITIONCHARACTERISTICS OF A GLASS-FILLEDPOLYMER COMPOSITE USING COUPLEDSTA/MASS SPECTROMETRY, J.B.Henderson(Univ. of Rhode Island), W.D. Emmerich andE. Kaiserberger (NETZSCH).

2:30 (95) PYROLYSIS OF CERAMIC FIBERS. P.H. Filsingerand P.J. Garner (Pow Corning).

2:50 (96) SOLVING POLYMER PROCESSING PROBLEMSUSING TG/GC/MS, P. Lau and G.A. Craig (PuPont).

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3:30 (97) EVOLVED GAS ANALYSIS OF POLYMERS USINGSIMULTANEOUS TG/MS AND TG/GC/MS,S.W. Froelicher (Dow).

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SESSION XIII (Azelia/Begonia Room)SYMPOSIUM ON CERAMICS: P.K. Gallagher (AT&T Bell Labs),

Chairman

Tuesday Afternoon P.K. Gallagher, PresidingOctober 11

1:30 (98) PLENARY LECTURE: THERMAL ANALYSIS OFGLASS & GLASS-CERAMICS, J.E. Shelby ,J.M. Jewell and J. Coon, (NYS College of Ceramics).

2:10 (99) EFFECT OF DECREPETATION ON THE THERMALANALYSIS OF DOLOMITE, R.A. Macaulev andL.A. Johnson (Rutgers Univ.).

2:30 (100) CHARACTERIZATION OF HIGH TEMPERATURESUPERCONDUCTORS BY T.A. TECHNIQUES,S.R. Sauerbrunn, W.E. Farneth and CL. Jaworski(DuPont).

2:50 (101) REDUCTION OF Ba2YCu3O7 and Y2CU2O5 BY H2,P.K. Gallagher. H.M. O'Bryan and G.S. Grader(AT&T Bell Labs).

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3:30 (102) ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF SUPERCON-DUCTING COMPOSITIONS AT HIGH TEMPERA-TURES, W.F. Hammetter (Sandia National Lab).

3:50 (103) THERMAL ANALYSIS OF A SUPERCONDUCTINGSUPEROXIDE: La2CuO4+x, P.J. Nigrey (SandiaNational Lab).

4:10 (104) HIGH TEMPERATURE DTA OF BORON CARBIDE-ALUMINUM COMPOSITES, P.J. Karjala, D.J. Fruripand A.J. Pyzik (Pow).

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4-30 (105) CRYSTALLINITY OF PSEUDOBOEHMITE INPRECIPITATED ALUMINA: A THERMALANALYSIS STUDY, R.G. Ferrillo and J.D. Carruthers(American Cyanamid).

4:50 (106) SOLID STATE CONVERSION OF FLUORIDE TOOXIDE, R.C Pastor and L.E. Gorre (Hughes ResearchLab).

SESSION XIV-A (Poinsettia/Quince Room)SYMPOSIUM ON FUELS & ENERGY RELATED SYSTEMS

D. Dollimore (Univ. of Toledo), Chairman

Tuesday Afternoon D. Dollimore, PresidingOctober 11

3:50 (107) PLENARY LECTURE: REACTIVITY OFANTHRACITE CHARS - A DTG STUDY,J.W. Cumming (Babcock Power, Scotland).

4:30 (108) THERMOGRAVIMETRIC CHARACTERIZA-TION OF CYCLONE & BOTTOM ASHES FROMFLUIDIZED BED COMBUSTION STUDIESOF COAL-DERIVED SOLID FUEL, D.L. Moran,M. Rostam-Abadi, J.A. Debarr and S.L. Rubin(Illinois State Geological Survey).

4:50 (109) COMBUSTION STUDIES OF COAL-DERIVEPSOLID FUELS BY TGA: EFFECT OF PARTICLESIZE ON BURNING PROFILES, J.A. DeBarr andM. Rostam-Abadi (Illinois State Geological Survey).

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SESSION X-C (Camelia/Dogwood Room)SYMPOSIUM ON SIMULTANEOUS & COMBINED TECHNIQUES

Jen Chiu (Chiu Enterprises), Chairman

Wednesday Morning M. Mittleman (BP America), PresidingOctober 12

9:00 (110) FURTHER ADVENTURES IN TGA/FT1R,M. Mittleman (BP America).

9:20 (111) TG AND FTIR: A COMBINED APPROACH TOSOLVING PROBLEMS, Pavid A.C Comptonand P.J. Johnson (Bio-Rad).

9:40 (112) THE CHARACTERIZATION OF AMINE ACTI-VATEP EPOXIES AS A FUNCTION OF CURE BYUSING TGA-FTIR, P.J. Johnson, P.A.C Compton(Bio-Rad), R.S. Cass, P.L. Canale (Bacon Ind.).

10:00 (113) TGA/FTIR. THE REST OF THE STORY,K.P. Kempfert (Nicolet).

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10:40 (114) A NEW SYSTEM FOR THE MEASUREMENT OFEVOLVEP GASES BY TGA/FTIR, B. Cassel,G.L. McClure and T. Lever (Perkin-Elmer).

11:00 (115) A STUPY OF WOOP COMBUSTION BY TGA/FTIR,W.-P. Pan (Western Kentucky Univ.), G.N. Richards(Univ. of Montana).

11:20 (116) COMPOSITIONAL PETERMINATION OF ORGANICCOATINGS ANP POLYMERS USING COMBINEPTGA ANP FTIR TECHNIQUES, J.W. Gooch andW.B. Forrister (Georgia Tech Res. Inst.).

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11:40 (117) CHARACTERIZATION OF VOLATILE PROPUCTSFROM THERMAL DEGRADATION OF POLY-OLEFIN FIBERS USING TGA/FTIR AND TGA/MS,JT Khorami. A. Lemieux (Univ. of Sherbrooke),R.B. Prime (IBM).

SESSION XIV-B (Poinsettia/Quince Room)SYMPOSIUM ON FUELS & ENERGY RELATED SYSTEMS

D. Dollimore (Univ. of Toledo), Chairman

Wednesday Morning D. Dollimore, PresidingOctober 12

8:40 (118) PLENARY LECTURE: APPLICATION OFSIMULTANEOUS THERMAL ANALYSIS-MASS SPECTROMETRY TO FOSSIL FUELSAND LUBRICATING OILS, K.-H. Ohrbach.G. Matuschek and A. Kettrup (Univ. of Paderborn).

9:20 (119) DETERMINATION OF ENGINE OIL VOLATILITYBY A THERMOGRAVIMETRIC METHOD, M. Zinboand L.M. Skewes (Ford Motor Co.).

9:40 (120) IN STUDYING CRUDE OIL COMBUSTION,CHANGING EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONSHELPED IN SEPARATING OVERLAPPED DSCPEAKS, S. Vossoughi and Y.M. El-Shoubary (Univ.of Kansas).

10:00 (121) TEMPERATURE CHARACTERIZATION & FLOWVISUALIZATION IN A LAMINAR FLOW EN-TRAINED REACTOR FOR OIL SHALE PYROLYSIS,M.-S. Shen, G.-Q. Zhang and L.J. Shadle (US DOE,Morgantown).

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10:40 (122) MULTI-ATMOSPHERE THERMAL ANALYSIS OFOIL SHALES, CM. Earnest (Berry College).

11:00 (123) THE USE OF THERMAL ANALYSIS TO FOLLOWTHE OXIDATION OF CARBON BLACKS IN AIR,D. Dollimore. P. Manley, W. Kneller and W.J. Yong(Univ. of Toledo).

11:20 (124) ON THE USE OF DSC OXIDATTVE PROFILES INTHE STUDY OF CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS,CM. Earnest (Berry College).

11:40 (125) EFFECTIVENESS OF DIFFERENT LIMESTONESIN REMOVING SULFUR OXIDE GASES,H.-G. Wiedemann and A. Boiler (Mettler Instruments).

SESSION XV-A (Narcissus/Orange Blossom Room)SYMPOSIUM ON ELASTOMERS

A.K. Sircar (Univ. of Dayton), Chairman

Wednesday Morning A.K. Sircar, PresidingOctober 12

9:00 (126) THERMO ANALYTICAL STUDIES OF OZONATIONOF ELASTOMERS, D.J. Burlett (The Goodyear Tire &Rubber Co.).

9:20 (127) CHARACTERIZATION OF CROSSLINK DENSITYFROM COMPRESSION MODULUS MEASURE-MENTS ON SWOLLEN ELASTOMERS, A.R. Cooper(Lockheed Palo Alto Res. Lab.).

9:40 (128) TRANSITION AND TIME DEPENDENT PROPER-TIES OF ELASTOMERIC AND VISCOELASTICMATERIALS BY DIFFERENT METHODS,P. Mahmoodi, M.T. Gibson. J.W.C. Van Bogart,D.P. Sheehy, RJ. Warm (3M Company).

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1000 (129) NEW TECHNIQUES AND DEVELOPMENTS INTHE STUDY OF ELASTOMERS BY THERMALANALYSIS, J.S. Maver. B. Twombly, R. Bruce Cassell(Perkin-Elmer Corp.).

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10:40 (130) ANTIOXIDANT SYSTEMS FOR TRACKEDVEHICLES, G. Rodriguez (U.S. Army, R&D Center,Belvoir).

11:00 (131) THE MELTING AND CRYSTALLIZATIONKINETICS OF HYDROGENATED POLY-(BUTADIENE), L. Mandelkern and R.G. Alamo(Florida State Univ.).

11:20 (132) DETERMINATION OF THE INTERACTIONPARAMETER IN POLYMER BLENDS,CA. Trask and CM. Roland (Naval ResearchLaboratoiy).

11:40 (133) THE APPLICATION OF DYNAMIC MECHANICALANALYSIS TO THE STUDY OF THERMOOXJDA-TIVE DEGRADATION OF SILICONE RUBBER,W.H. Dickstein, R.L. Siemens, E. Hadziioannou(IBM Almaden Research Center).

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SESSION XVI (Azelia/Begonia Room)SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN THERMAL

ANALYSISR. M. Flynn (STRADA), Chairman

Wednesday Morning R.M. Flynn, PresidingOctober 12

9:00 (134) A NEW COMPUTER-ASSISTED APPROACH TOESTIMATE THE EQUILIBRIUM MELTING TEM-PERATURE OF POLYMER CRYSTALS, Y.P. Khanna.R. Kumar and G. Chomyn (Allied-Signal, Inc.).

9:20 (135) A SECOND GENERATION OF THERMAL ANALYSISSOFTWARE (PART I). D.W. Loeb, N. Schneider andF. Summers (Omnitherm Corp.).

9:40 (136) A SECOND GENERATION OF THERMAL ANALYSISSOFTWARE (PART II). D.W. Loeb, N. Schneider andF. Summers (Omnitherm Corp.).

10:00 (137) SOLID + LIQUID PHASE EQUILIBRIA IN THEHYDROXYLAMMONIUM NITRATE + WATERSYSTEM, J. Bevan Ott and J.I. Artman (BrighamYoung Univ.).

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10:40 (138) A VERSATILE, COMPUTER-CONTROLLEDREACTION CALORIMETER SYSTEM, B. Grob,R. Riesen and B. Kloetzl (Mettler Instrument Corp.).

11:20 (139) A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE USE OFCOMPUTERS IN THERMAL ANALYSIS, B. Casseland A.P. Gray (Perkin-Elmer Corp.).

11:40 (140) APPLICATION OF RIGOROUS NONLINEAR RE-GRESSION FOR ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX DSCREACTIVITY CURVES, J.M. Pickard (MonsantoResearch Corp.).

SESSION XVII (Exhibition Hall)GENERAL PAPERS - POSTERS

A.R. McGhie (Univ. of Pennsylvania), Organizer

Wednesday Morning 10:00 -12:00October 12

(141) KINETICS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PYRROLYSISAND THERMALOXIDATIVE DEGRADATIONOF POLY (VINYL METHYL ETHER), R.B. Prime(IBM).

(142) THE USE OF TGA KINETICS IN THE SEPARATIONOF FIBER OPTIC CABLE WATER BLOCKINGCOMPOUNDS, B. Kinkopf (Siecor Corp.).

(143) THE CORRELATION OF SHRINK FORCE WITHMECHANICAL PERFORMANCE OF DRAWN ANDANNEALED POLYPROPYLENE FIBER, R. Vetrecin(Ethicon).

(144) THERMAL DECOMPOSITION PATHS FOR MIX-TURES: ALKALINE EARTH ANP TRANSITIONMETAL FORMATES ANP OXALATES,R.M. Panayappan and J.C. Cooper (Naval ResearchLab).

(145) AN INEXPENSIVE REACTIVE GAS INLET FORTGA, A.R. McGhie (Univ. of Pennsylvania).

(146) THE REACTIVITY OF SELECTED DIVALENTBETA' ALUMINAS WITH WATER, G.S. Rohrer,A.R. McGhie and G.C Farrington (Univ. of PA).

(147) ACOUSTIC AND DIELECTRIC CURE MONITORINGOF EPOXY RESIN AND GRAPHITE EPOXY PRE-PREG, Z.N. Sanjana and R.T. Harrold (WestinghouseR&D).

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SESSION XIV-C (Poinsettia/Quince Room)SYMPOSIUM ON FUELS & ENERGY RELATED SYSTEMS

D. Dollimore (Univ. of Toledo), Chairman

Wednesday Afternoon D. Dollimore, PresidingOctober 12

1:30 (148) WETTING CHARACTERISTICS OF MOLTENLITHIUM FLUORIDE ON PRISTINE AND METAL-COATED CARBON FIBERS, D.A. Jaworske (NASA,Lewis).

1:50 (149) EFFECT OF CLEANING COAL ON ITS REAC-TIVITY, C Briones. M.H. Whiteley, W.-P. Panand M.A. Serageldin (Western Kentucky Univ.).

2:10 (150) CHARACTERIZATION OF LOW TEMPERATUREASHES DERIVED FROM OHIO COALS,W.A. Kneller and D. Dollimore (Univ. of Toledo).

2:30 (151) A DSC STUDY ON WOOD, C Howlett andW.-P. Pan (Western Kentucky Univ.).

2:50 (152) SURFACE CATEGORIZATION BY FLOW AD-SORPTION MICROCALORIMETRY, M. Templer(Microscal).

3:10 (153) THERMAL CHARACTERIZATION OF COALS,R.P. Tye (Dynatech).

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SESSION XV-B (Narcissus/Orange Blossom Room)SYMPOSIUM ON ELASTOMERS

A.K. Sircar (Univ. of Dayton), Chairman

Wednesday Afternoon A.K. Sircar, PresidingOctober 12

1-30 (154) CORRELATION OF RESULTS OF THERMALANALYTICAL TESTS IN FAILURE ANALYSISSTUDIES WITH THERMOPLASTIC POLYURE-THANE ELASTOMERS, L.A. Domingue andJ.W. Mason (Baxter Healthcare Corporation).

1:50 (155) TEMPERATURE AND STRAIN INDUCED CRY-STALLIZATION OF CARBON BLACK FILLEDNATURAL RUBBER, H. Liu, R.F. Lee andJ.A. Donovan (Univ. of Massachusetts).

2:10 (156) DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY ASA METHOD FOR INDICATING HYDROLYSIS OFURETHANE ELASTOMERS, P.M. Crawford.A.R. Teets, P . Flanagan (US Army Belvoir RD&ECenter).

2:30 (157) DSC STUDIES OF ORDERED AND DISORDEREDELASTOMERIC COPOLYMERS, H.E. Bair.F.S. Dates and J.H. Rosedale (AT&T Bell Labs).

2:50 (158) A THERMAL STUDY ON THE EFFECT OF THERMO-PLASTIC ELASTOMERS ON LOVA PROPELLANTS,J. Salo (US Army, Picatinny Arsenal).

3:10 (159) THERMAL BEHAVIOR OF POLY (VINYL CHLOR-JX>E)/EPOXIDISED NATURAL RUBBER MISCIBLEBLENDS, K.T. Verghese, P.P. De and S.K. De (IndianInstitute of Tech.).

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SESSION XVIII (Azelia/Begonia Room)GENERAL PAPERS - MISCELLANEOUS

Wednesday Afternoon Z.N. Sanjana (Westinghouse), PresidingOctober 12

1:30 (160) KINETICS OF DECOMPOSITION OF THE SOLIDSTATE: IS THERE A DICHOTOMY? P.D.Garn(Univ. of Akron).

1:50(161) RATES OF SOLID-SOLID PHASE TRANSFORMA-TIONS BY DSC, R.A. Fifer (Ballistic Research Lab,Aberdeen).

2:10 (162) INCOMPATIBILITY STUDY OF DRUG EXCIPIENTSWITH CAPSULE SHELLS, N. Redman-Furev andD.E. Gaines (Norwich Eaton).

2:30 (163) THE EVALUATION OF LUBRICATING OILS USEDIN THE COLD ROLLING PROCESS BY THERMO-GRAVIMETRY, D.I. Weinstein. E.M. Kerr andJ.M. Sech (Nalco Chem. Co.).

3:00 (164) DETERMINATION OF THE PRECIPITATION POINTBY DSC, J.M. Daniel (DuPont).

3:10 (165) APPLICATIONS OF THERMAL ANALYSIS IN THEPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LABORATORY, J. Timmons.C. Brainard and W.-P. Pan (Western Kentucky Univ.).

SESSION XIX (Camelia/Dogwood Room)GENERAL PAPERS - POLYMERS

Wednesday Afternoon S.Z.D. Cheng (Univ. of Akron), PresidingOctober 12

1 -30 (166) THERMAL BEHAVIOR OF SECONDARY (CA)AND TERTIARY (CTA) CELLULOSE ACETATE,A.R. Greenberg. KJ. Gleason, M.D. Wray andW.B. Krantz (Univ. of Colorado).

1-50 (167) THERMAL DECOMPOSITION OF LIGNOCELLU-LOSIC MATERIALS, H. Balkan, C. Bhavsar andE. Kiran (Univ. of Maine).

2:10 (168) CORRELATING THE FLAMMABILJTY CHARAC-TERISTIC OF A POLYMER WITH THERMALANALYSIS, R.W. Mickelson (Wayne State Univ.).

2:30 (169) THERMAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE INHI-BITION OF ESTER-EXCHANGE REACTIONS INTHERMOPLASTIC POLYESTER MELTS,M.-F. Cheung. A. Golovoy, R.O. Carter, III andH. Van Oene (Ford Motor Co.).

2:50 (170) FACTORS AFFECTING OXIDATIVE INDUCTIONTIME MEASUREMENTS OF XLPE HIGH VOLTAGECABLE INSULATION, A.T. Bulinski. S.S. Bamji andR.J. Densley (N.R.C Canada).

3:10 (171) FREE ENERGY OF MIXING OF POLYMER BLENDSBY HEAT OF SOLUTION MEASUREMENTS:ATACTIC-PS/PPO AND ISOTACTIC-PS/PPOBLENDS, L.F. Whiting and S.S. Eadie (Dow).

3:30 (172) EFFECT OF SUBSTITUTION ON THERMAL POLY-MERIZATION OF DIACETYLENES, K.N. Desai. A.R.McGhie, A.A. Panackal & A.F. Garito (U. of Penn.).

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SESSION XIV-CPOST DEADLINE PAPERS

3:30 (173) THERMAL STABILITY OF COAL DURING A COAL-DRYING PROCESS UTILIZING SUPERHEATEDSTEAM, D.R. Beuerman (Montana College of MineralScience and Technology).

3:50 (174) THE DEHYDRATION OF VARIOUS CLAYS, J. Azizi,D. Dollimore and W.A. Kneller (Univ. of Toledo).

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