Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A colorless volatile liquid epoxide, C3H5ClO, used as a solvent and in making resins.
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- noun chemistry any
epihalohydrin in which thehalogen ischlorine
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Examples
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The EPA will follow that rulemaking by setting stricter standards for epichlorohydrin and acrylamide, which can contaminate drinking water through the water-treatment process.
EPA to Issue Stricter Drinking-Water Standards Ian Talley 2010
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The EPA will follow that rulemaking by setting stricter standards for epichlorohydrin and acrylamide, which can contaminate drinking water through the water-treatment process.
EPA to Issue Stricter Drinking-Water Standards Ian Talley 2010
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The EPA will follow that rulemaking by setting stricter standards for epichlorohydrin and acrylamide, which can contaminate drinking water through the water-treatment process.
EPA to Issue Stricter Drinking-Water Standards Ian Talley 2010
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The team succesfully reduced the size further using epichlorohydrin as a cross-linking agent.
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However, its production involves use of epichlorohydrin as an intermediate.
Alternatives for significant uses of formaldehyde in Massachusetts 2008
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That particularly applied to epichlorohydrin liquid epoxy resin where we could value maximize here in the United States rather than sell at lower margins in the Pacific.
unknown title 2011
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So what we've done is, of course, got across-the-board price increases in most of the Performance businesses that have price sensitivity, and especially those in the chains like MDI, like acrylic acid and esters and epichlorohydrin and epoxy.
unknown title 2011
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The business also benefited from tight supply/demand conditions in key raw materials, such as epichlorohydrin.
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Another biodiesel glycerin derivative is epichlorohydrin, a monomer for epoxy plastics.
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Dow and Solvay have each announced plans to make epichlorohydrin from biodiesel glycerin.
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