Knowde Enhanced TDS
Identification & Functionality
- Chemical Family
- CASE Ingredients Functions
Features & Benefits
- CASE Ingredients Features
- Olfactory families
- Plasticizer for pressure sensitive and hot melt adhesives
- Gloss component in lacquers
- Softener for rubber compounds
- Component of inks, varnishes, and asphalt
- Benefits
- Clarity
- High refractive index
- High boiling point
- Low vapor pressure
- Good thermal stability
- Excellent surface wetting properties, viscosity, and tack
- Compatible and miscible with a wide variety of materials
- Insoluble in water
Applications & Uses
- Markets
- Applications
- Adhesive & Sealant Type
- Industrial Additives End Use
- Applications
- These physical properties, plus its wide compatibility, make it useful in a variety of applications, including lacquers, inks, paper coatings, varnishes, adhesives, sealing compounds, plastics, and wood preservatives.
- Abalyn resin retains the reactive double bonds of rosin, which may be an advantage or a drawback, depending upon application conditions.
- For a methyl ester that has been stabilized against oxidation at these reactive sites by hydrogenation, Hercolyn D resin is recommended.
Properties
- Physical Form
- Typical Properties
| Value | Units | Test Method / Conditions | |
| Color | max. 8 | Gardener | — |
| Color | 6 | Gardener | — |
| Acid Number | max. 8 | — | — |
| Viscosity (25 °C) | Y – Z3 | — | GardnerHoldt |
| Saponification number | 160 | — | — |
| Flash point, Cleveland open cup | 352 (180) | °F (°C) | — |
| Boiling point | 352 – 356 | °C | — |
Regulatory & Compliance
- Regulatory/Classifications
- US DOT - Not regulated
- US - 21 CFR 175.105 - 21 CFR 175.210
- FDA - 21 CFR 175.300 - 21 CFR 175.1210
- 21 CFR 175.380 - 21 CFR 175.2600
- 21 CFR 175.390
Packaging & Availability
- Packaging
- Package - Drum, 55gallon, steel - Bulk, tank truck
- Form - Liquid
- Net weight - 450 lbs, 204.12 kg - Varies