A Feb. 22 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of a woman's face and scribbled mathematical formulas. "Trying to understand why a train was carrying over 300,000 gallons of a ...

In 1974, the Consumer Product Safety Commission banned the use of vinyl chloride in aerosols. It is still used primarily to produce polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, one of the most widely produced plastics ...

Vinyl chloride entered the spotlight after the Feb. 3 Ohio train derailment. But the hazardous substance has been around for decades and is everywhere — from buildings and vehicle upholstery to ...

Among the vinyl polymers and copolymers, the polyvinyl-chloride (PVC) thermoplastics are the most commercially significant. With various plasticizers, fillers, stabilizers, lubricants, and impact ...

A national advocacy group argues that the range of health and safety hazards linked to vinyl chloride are serious enough to warrant banning it entirely. The gas – which is the main ingredient in the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) – Vinyl chloride – the chemical in several of the train cars that derailed and burned in East Palestine, Ohio, in February 2023 – can wreak havoc on the human liver. It has been ...

Compositions of poly(vinyl chloride) with 2–10 (w/w) cellulose were prepared by extrusion. The mechanical properties and water absorptiveness of modified PVC have ...

The Biden administration has initiated a formal evaluation of risks posed by vinyl chloride, the cancer-causing chemical that burned in a towering plume of toxic black smoke following a fiery train ...

Vinyl is often referred to as the "infrastructure plastic," and with good reason. More than half of all vinyl produced annually in the United States is used to manufacture construction or furnishing ...

SolVin, the European polyvinyl chloride joint venture of Solvay and BASF, will expand its plant in Belgium to 475,000 metric tons of annual PVC capacity by 2009, up from 400,000 metric tons today. The ...