\ab-▐hir-әnt\ n (adhesive) A coating or film applied to one surface to prevent or reduce its adhesion to another surface brought into intimate contact with it. Abherents applied to plastic films are often called anti-blocking agents. Those applied to molds, calendar rolls, etc., are sometimes called release agents or Parting Agents (Skeist I (ed) (1990, 1977, 1962) Handbook of adhesives. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York).
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Gooch, J.W. (2011). Abherent. In: Gooch, J.W. (eds) Encyclopedic Dictionary of Polymers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6247-8_19
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