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Scotchlite A16/500
Soda-lime-borosilicate glass
Scotchlite Glass Bubbles are engineered hollow glass microspheres that are alternatives to conventional fillers and additives such as silicas, calcium carbonate, talc, clay, etc., for many demanding applications.
These low density particles are used in a wide range of industries to reduce part weight, lower costs and enhance product properties.
The unique spherical shape of Scotchlite glass bubbles offers a number of important benefits, including: higher filler loading, lower viscosity/improved flow, and reduced shrinkage and warpage.
It also helps the Scotchlite glass bubbles blend readily into compounds, and makes them adaptable to a variety of production processes, including spraying, casting and molding.
In addition, they offer greater survivability under demanding processing conditions, such as injection molding, and also produce stable voids, which results in low thermal conductivity and a low dielectric constant.
The chemically-stable soda-lime-borosilicate glass composition of Scotchlite glass bubbles provides excellent water resistance, to create more stable emulsions.
They are also non-combustible and non-porous, so they do not absorb resin.
And, their low alkalinity gives Scotchlite glass bubbles compatibility with most resins, stable viscosity and long shelf life.
Scotchlite Glass Bubbles Floated Series offer the same combination of strength and light weight as standard Scotchlite glass bubbles, with an added surface treatment of special coupling agents, for use in high-tech applications such as aerospace and hydrospace syntactic foam, radomes and printed wire boards.
They are available in a variety of sizes and grades to meet your specific product and processing requirements.
Target Isostatic Strength(90% survival, psi): 500
True Density(g/cc): 0.16
Distribution(10th%/50th%/90th%): 35/70/115
Effective top size 95th%: 135
Color(unaided eye): White
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3M Specialty Additives
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