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Are these chemicals useful?

drfro2 - 10-7-2009 at 22:20

Alright so,

Today i was cleaning up abit when i stumbled on a super strength glue that comes in 2 parts,

So i searched the MSDS and got a list of the ingredients listed,

Part A contains

Bisphenol A-Epichlorohydrin >60%
Non hazardous component(s) to 100%

Part B contains

3-Aminopropyldimethylamine 1-10%
Tri(dimethylaminomethyl)phenol 1-10%
Polyamide resin >60%

What i would like to know is can i seperate these chemicals?
And also are any of them useful and actually worth separating?

Hoping someone on here knows

:)

not_important - 11-7-2009 at 06:06

Yes, they are useful; when properly mixed they form an epoxy resin that can be used as a glue.

Did you even try doing a Web search on them? There's an overview here http://pslc.ws/mactest/epoxy.htm

Any time you see "resin" you are dealing with a polymer, which typically would need to be depolymerised to be get a useful-as-something-besides-plastic monomer. The Part A stuff is a pre-polymer, formed by reacting epichlorohydrin with bisphenol-A, which has been in the news a lot over the last few months - try searching the Web on it.