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Organic polymers are, unlike ceramics or metals, permeable to a greater orlesser extent to water vapour. Thus, it is important to bear in mind how the watertransport properties will affect their performance in the environment in whichthey will operate.Use of organic polymers to protect products from degradation is widespread inindustry. In the food

For more than four decades radiation curing of pressure sensitive adhesives has been known. Work hasbeen contributed by many companies and institutes and thus the information is scattered over a greatnumber of patents, articles in scientific and trade journals, conference papers, and reviews.Up to 1974 there is a status report prepared by R. Dowben