Thermooxidative Degradation and Flammability of Polymers of Triethyleneglycoldimethacrylate.

The reported experiments are a continuation of a previous work in which the relationship was studied between molecular structure of acrylic oligoesters and their flammability. In this paper results are presented of a low-temperature thermooxidative decomposition of acrylic polyesters. The experiments covered measurement of rates of decomposition and burning kinetics as well as analysis of degradation products. Experimental data are tabulated, plotted and evaluated in terms of reaction mechanisms.