Participants
| Role | Name | HCID | Charge |
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| Reactant | Formaldehyde | HCID 712 | — |
| Reactant | Melamine | HCID 7955 | — |
| Reactant | Sodium Hydroxide | HCID 14798 | — |
| Product | Melamine formaldehyde | HCID 93374 | — |
Reaction Steps
Apart from the above, melamine powder was added to an aqueous solution of 37% formaldehyde. This was controlled to have a pH of 9 with an aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide added thereto, and then heated at 60° C. for 30 minutes to obtain a melamine-formaldehyde prepolymer.
Provenance & Evidence
| DOI | 10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1 |
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| Patent number | US06303259B1 |
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| Source dataset | uspto-grants-2001_10 |
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| ORD ID | ord-29c13307e8d54edb901d1488559a39fc |
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| Source note | uspto-grants-2001_10 |
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