He said the consensus of the railroad and its experts at the time was that a polymerization reaction was happening inside the cars. When liquified vinyl chloride polymerizes or quickly turns to solid ...

In 1974, the Consumer Product Safety Commission banned the use of vinyl chloride in aerosols. It is still used primarily to produce polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, one of the most widely produced plastics ...

Thanks for publishing Priyanka Runwal’s fine article on East Palestine, Ohio, in the Feb. 26, 2024, issue of C&EN (page 24). The Norfolk Southern train derailment should have received a prompt federal ...