Winter Newsletter 2011
Deformulation of a Christmas Tree
Christopher Kringle recently requested a qualitative deformulation of an artificial Christmas tree for components above 1%. He was pleased to call Chemir, experts in polymer reverse engineering. Samples mysteriously arrived gift-wrapped in our sample receiving area.
Chemir scientists analyzed the Christmas tree samples using GC/MS, GPC, NMR, FT-IR and SEM-EDS. Below is our comprehensive final report, complete with spectra, chromatograms and recommendations for future work.
Chart 1: Sample Received
Chart 2: EXDA Spectrum
Chart 3.1: GC/MS Chromatogram
Chart 3.2: Mass Spectrum of 2-Ethyl-1-Hexanol
Chart 3.3: Mass Spectrum of 2,6,7-Trimethyl-Decane
Chart 4: GPC Chromatogram
Chart 5: NMR Spectrum
Chart 6.1: FT-IR Spectrum
Chart 6.2: FT-IR Reference Spectrum
