- Course code
- PTL704
- L-T-P
- 3-0-0
- Credits
- 3
Polymers of commercial importance; additives for plastics; stabilizers, fillers, plasticizers and extenders, lubricants and flow promoters, flame retardants, blowing agents, colourants, cross-lnking agents and biodegradation additives; manufacture, properties and applications of major thermoplastic and thermosetting polymers: polyethylene, polypropylene, poly(vinylene chloride), polystyrene and other styrenics, pheonol-formaldehyde, urea-melamine formaldehyde and unsaturated polyester resings.