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Application area: General industry
General facts
Polystyrene
Shortening: PS
Color: Transparent, colorless
Common uses: Components in electrical equipment for UHF and VHF and as an insulator for microwaves.
Benefits
Restrictions
Technical data
Benefits
- Constant permittivity up to 500 Ghz.
- High electrical insulation capacity.
- High resistance to ionizing radiation.
- High dimensional stability.
- Operating temperature from -60ºC to + 100ºC.
- Very low degassing.
- Low water absorption.
- Transmission in the visible range comparable to PMMA.
- Very low loss angle tangent-delta.
Restrictions
- Sensitive to exposure to cold and sunlight.
- Limited impact resistance, mechanically weak, crack prone.
- Low solvent resistance.
- Low softening temperature.
- Low resistance to oils and solvents.
