n Porosity or sponginess occurring during cure, either deliberately through use of a gas releasing material to form sponge or expanded rubber, or inadvertently due to entrapped moisture to cause undesirable porosity. The practice of injecting a gas into a hot and flowing resin to create a part or film.
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Gooch, J.W. (2011). Blowing. In: Gooch, J.W. (eds) Encyclopedic Dictionary of Polymers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6247-8_1427
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