United States Patent Office
3,260,760 United States Patent Office Patented July 12, 1966 2 3,260,760 chlorinated hydrocarbons to decomposition is shown by STABLIZED CHILORENATED HYDR00ARS60N the accelerated laboratory test carried out as follows; COMPOSITIONS 150 cubic centimetres of trichloroethylene, for example, Charles Domen and André Ryckaert, Brussels, Belgium, and a test piece of aluminum are placed in a 300 cubic and Charles Jegge, Zurzach, Aargau, Switzerland, as 5 signors to Solvay & Cie, Brussels, Belgium, a Belgian centimetres flask and a Soxhlet extraction apparatus pro company vided with an extractor of 65 cubic centimeters. The No Drawing. Fied (Oct. 8, 1963, Ser. No. 314,650 flask is electrically heated and the trichloroethylene is Claims priority, application Belgium, Oct. 31, 1962, rapidly brought to boiling under reflux at a constant rate 628,339 while the apparatus is traversed by a current of oxygen 6 Claims. (C. 260-652.5) 10 and illuminated by a fluorescent lamp of the “blue actnic' type. During the time of the test, the rate of release of The present invention comprises a process for the sta the acid vapours leaving the apparatus is measured. This bilization of chorinated hydrocarbons, particularly tri rate, very Small at first, becomes suddenly very large chloroethylene and perchloroethylene, with a view to while the trichloroethylene darkens in color and trans avoiding the decomposition of these products and the si 5 forms into a black tarry mass. The resistance of the tri multaneous formation of oxidation products during stor chloroethylene under test is measured by the time, ex age or during their use.
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