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The thermal degradation in oxygen of fifteen polymers containing aromatic rings in the chain has been studied by a weight loss method. The relative thermal stabilities of the different polymers have been determined and, where possible, the overall activation energy for breakdown. The results have been compared with those for samples of the same polymers degraded in vacuum. The most thermally stable of the polymers examined under oxidizing conditions was poly(2,6‐dichlorophenylene oxide), with a stability comparable with that of a copolymer of tetrafluoroethylene and hexafluoropropylene.
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Lancaster et al. (1967) studied this question.
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