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Chapter 39

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Plastics and articles thereof

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Test Method for Aromatic Hydrogen and Aromatic Carbon Contents of Hydrocarbon Oils by High Resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (ASTM D 5292)

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Practice for Qualitative Identification of Polymers in Emulsion Paints (ASTM D 3168)

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Practice for Identification of Organic Compounds in Water by Combined Gas Chromatography and Electron Impact Mass Spectrometry (ASTM D 4128)

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Practice for Packed Column Gas Chromatography (ASTM E 260)

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Practice for Installing Fused Silica Open Tubular Capillary Columns in Gas Chromatographs (ASTM E 1510)

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Test Method for Infrared Identification of Vehicle Solids from Solvent-Reducible Paints (ASTM D 2621)

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Test Method for Ultraviolet Absorbance and Absorptivity of Petroleum Products (ASTM D 2008)

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Practice for Rubber Chemicals - Determination of Ultraviolet Absorbance Characteristics (ASTM D 2703)

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Practice for Describing and Measuring Performance of Ultraviolet, Visible, and Near Infrared Spectrophotometers (ASTM D 275)

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Test Methods for Density and Specific Gravity (Relative Density) of Plastics by Displacement (ASTM D 792)

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Standard Test Methods for Determination of Vinyl Acetate Content of Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate (EVA) Copolymers by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR) (ASTM D 5594)

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Specification for Polyethylene Plastics Molding and Extrusion Materials (ASTM D 1248)

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Terminology in HTSUS Section VII

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Test Method for Field Identification of Coatings (ASTM D 5043)

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Test Method for Extractable Matter in Textiles (ASTM D 2257)

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Test Method for Dilute Solution Viscosity of Polymers (ASTM D 2857)

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Test Method for Determining Inherent Viscosity of Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) (ASTM D 40603)

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Test Method of Moisture Content of Paper and Paperboard by Oven Drying (ASTM D 644)

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Test Method for Tensile Properties of Thin Plastic Sheeting (ASTM D 882)

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Practice for Calibrating the Magnification of a Scanning Electron Microscope (ASTM E 766)

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Practice for Scanning Electron Microscope Performance Characterization (ASTM E 986)

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Practices for Internal Reflection Spectroscopy (ASTM E 573)

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Practice for Identification of Polymer Layers or Inclusions by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR) (ASTM D 5477)

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Practice for General Techniques of Gas Chromatography Infrared (GC/IR) Analysis (ASTM E 1642)

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Practice for Dissolving Polymer Materials (ASTM D 5226)

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Medical Devices: Patient Examination and Surgeons' Gloves; Adulteration

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Guidelines for the Identification of HTSUS Section VII Materials

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Test Methods for Nonvolatile Content of Resin Solutions (ASTM D 1259)

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Standard Practices for General Techniques of Infrared Microanalysis (ASTM E 334)

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Loss on Drying (USP 731)

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Loss on Ignition (USP 733)

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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (USP 761)

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Textiles - Woven Fabrics - Determination of Mass per Unit Length and Mass per Unit Area (ISO 3801)

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Standard Test Methods for Vulcanized Rubber and Thermoplastic Elastomers-Tension (ASTM D 412)

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Standard Test Methods for Determination of Vinyl Acetate Content of Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate (EVA) Copolymers by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR) (ASTM D 5594)

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Standard Practice for General Techniques for Obtaining Infrared Spectra for Qualitative Analysis (ASTM E 1252)

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Standard Practices for General Techniques of Infrared Microanalysis (ASTM E 334)

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Guidelines for Elemental Qualitative Analysis by X-ray Fluorescence

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General Rules for X-ray Diffractometric Analysis (JIS K 0131)

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Standard Test Method for Ash Content in Thermoplastics (ASTM D 5630)

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Standard Test Method for Determination of Linear Low Density Polyethylene (LLDPE) Composition by Carbon-13 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (ASTM D 5017)

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Analysis of Plastic by Light Microscopy

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Scanning Electron Microscopy (USP 1181)

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The Thread Test for Distinguishing Waxes from Polymers