n A blowing agent developed in Germany for use in rubber and PVC. It is nonstaining and yields white PVC foam of fine uniform cell structure. However, its decomposition product, tetramethyl succinonitrile, is toxic and must be eliminated from the expanded product. For this reason the material is not used commercially in the U.S. as a blowing agent. It is used as a polymerization initiator (Odian GC (2004) Principles of polymerization. Wiley, New York; Elias HG (1977) Macromolecules, vol 1–2. Plenum Press, New York).
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Gooch, J.W. (2011). Azobis(isobutyronitrile). In: Gooch, J.W. (eds) Encyclopedic Dictionary of Polymers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6247-8_941
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