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CYREX 200-8005 alloy is an opaque, acrylic-polycarbonate alloy with an impact strength that is higher than polycarbonate.
Details Compound
Applications
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Advantages
- outstanding impact strength and toughness
- excellent processing characteristics
- very good chemical resistance
- good heat resistance
- medium melt flow rate
- excellent resistance to both alcohol and lipids
- good resistance to EtO, gamma and E-beam sterilization
Other Applications
Used for injection molding and extrusion of both thin and thickwall applications which require excellent toughness.
Technical data
| Quantity | Value | Unit | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Properties | |||
| Specific Gravity | 1.15 | ASTM D792 | |
| MFI | 3.5 | g/10min | ASTM D1238@Load 3.80 kg, Temperature 230 °C |
| Melting range | 238 - 266 | ºC | |
| Linear Mold Shrinkage | 0.0040 - 0.0080 | cm/cm | ASTM D951 |
| Bulk density | 0.650 | g/ml | ASTM D1895 |
| Thermal Properties | |||
| Dry Time | 180 - 240 | min | |
| Thermal Expansion | 93.6 | µm/m-°C | ;linear;ASTM D696@Temperature 0.000 -100 °C |
| Heat Deflection temperature | 101 | ºC | Annealed; ASTM D648@Thickness 6.35 mm; at 1.8 MPa |
| Vicat softening temperature | 141 | ºC | ASTM D1525 |
| Mechanical Properties | |||
| Izod impact strength (notched) | 1390 | J/m | bar; ASTM D256@Diameter 3.17 mm |
| Flexural modulus-MD | 2210 | MPa | ASTM D790 |
| Flexural strength | 77.9 | MPa | ASTM D790 |
| Elongation at yield | 4.3 | % | ASTM D638 |
| Rockwell Hardness | 49 | Rockwell M; ASTM D785 | |
| Elongation at break-MD | 57 | % | ASTM D638 |
| Tensile Stress at break-MD | 55.2 | MPa | ASTM D638 |
| Tensile modulus-MD | 2210 | MPa | ASTM D638 |
| Chemical Properties | |||
| Water absorption | <0.26 | % | ASTM D570 |
| Optical Properties | |||
| Transmittance | 0.0 | % | Opaque; ASTM D1003;visible |
| Process Properties | |||
| Middle Barrel Temperature | 199 - 266 | ºC | Cylinder Temp |
| Mold Temperature | 65.6 - 98.9 | ºC | |
| Drying Temperature | 82.2 | ºC | |