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An important element of the study of polymeric foams is the application of a valid method for the characterization of foam cell structure. Factors to be considered before undertaking such a characterization are whether it should be qualitative or quantitative, what is to be characterized, what will the results mean and to what purpose will the results be put?
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Rhodes, M.B. (1994). Characterization of polymeric cellular structures. In: Hilyard, N.C., Cunningham, A. (eds) Low density cellular plastics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1256-7_3
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