TABLE OF CONTENTS You have a manufactured product or an unknown formulated material, and you want to know its composition. How do you go about it without spending an enormous amount of time and money? This book is designed to answer those questions in great detail.
Just identifying a solid or liquid substance can be a challenging experience, and accurately analyzing a multicomponent formulation can be an exhausting one. In liquid or solid forms, a paint can resemble an adhesive, ink, or plastic material. Therefore, we will explore extensively how to distinguish types of formulations and how to efficiently, economically, and, hopefully, painlessly deformulate it.
Formulations can be mixtures of materials of widely varying concentrations and forms. To investigate any formulated plastic, paint, adhesive, or ink material, the investigator must have a plan to deformulate or reverse engineer, then analyze each separated component. A typical formulation requires very specific isolation of a mixture of chemical compounds before an identification of individual components can be attempted. The state and chemical nature of materials vary widely, and require a host of analytical tools. Historically, the strategy for analysis has varied as widely. Strategy is provided for using proven methods to untangle and characterize multicomponents from a single formulation.
The structure of this book as outlined in the Contents consists of a logical scheme to allow the reader to identify a particular area of interest. The basic scheme consists of formulations, materials used in the formulation, and followed by methods of deformulation.
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