Rates of polymer deposition and radical trapping in xylene plasmas produced in a Siemens tube with 60‐Hz current decreased linearly with increasing flow rate but increased linearly with power and decreased in the order ortho > meta > para at a constant flow rate and pressure. These results indicate that radical recombination and disproportionation are unimportant and that the polymerization rate equation is first order in free radical concentration.
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