Research Article

How Water Content Can Influence the Chemomechanical Properties and Physical Degradation under Aging of Experimental Adhesives

Table 2

Kinetic constants referring to the autocatalytic model adjusted to the experimental results presented in Figure 2.

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0 wt% D2O15 ± 91.17 ± 0.172.11 ± 0.470.58 ± 0.03
10 wt% D2O2.01 ± 0.530.9 ± 0.11.41 ± 0.20.71 ± 0.02
16 wt% D2O1.27 ± 0.320.88 ± 0.11.42 ± 0.20.74 ± 0.02

k, speed constant; m, exponent of the autocatalytic term; n, exponent of the reaction order term; c, reaction yield.