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  • adjective organic chemistry Converted into an epoxide
  • adjective Treated with an epoxide (resin)

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Examples

  • Contains a naturally epoxidized oil useful in paints.

    28 additional technical notes about tropical agriculture 1996

  • Vernonia oil (VO) is epoxidized already, and may be able to fill some of those market niches.

    16: Oils 1996

  • VO is also much less viscous than the synthetically epoxidized oils.

    16: Oils 1996

  • It is grown for its seeds which contain 40% oil, of which 80% is a "naturally" epoxidized vernolic fatty acid.

    16: Oils 1996

  • Most have to do with its special physical properties, especially the fact that the "epoxy" structure is highly reactive with certain chemicals, unlike most fatty acids which are not epoxidized.

    16: Oils 1996

  • There is a large industrial market for synthetically epoxidized vegetable oils (such as linseed or soybean), but the epoxidation process is expensive.

    16: Oils 1996

  • In some of these, unmodified sperm oil was used, but more often it was sulfurized; sometimes it was epoxidized, chlorinated, or phosphorylated before being added to the lubricant base stock.

    5 Uses 1985

  • The PVC Additives business develops, manufactures, sells and distributes tin stabilizers, liquid and solid mixed metals, liquid phosphite esters, epoxidized soybean oil, thiochemicals, organic-based stabilizers, and impact modifiers used primarily in PVC applications.

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