My uncle has a question he needs resolved. He has been wearing vinyl gloves and working with salt. A while ago he noticed that when using these gloves they broke down and if so, was this breakdown contaminating the food he was eating?
salt=nacl na=sodium a group 1 element.
structure of gloves is vinyl is ch2=ch-
the equal sign on the vinyl group means a double bond
single bond is 'ane'
double bond is 'ene'
triple bond is 'yne'
#1 posiibilty.......ch2=ch-na.......
this is going to food.
#2 possibly........nacl.......ch2...
???????
remember octet rule ......
Please help if you have any suggestions.
2007-08-08 09:56:00 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
The glove is made from the polymer polyvinylechloride. you mentioned that he was handeling salt, the salt crystals may have worn the glove, braking it down. Given the fact that polymer is a very inert platic, the salt did not react with it and corrod it. It will not contaminte his food.
2007-08-08 10:56:36 · answer #1 · answered by Dr Knight M.D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well unfortunately 'vinyl' could mean many different things. you're right about vinyl indicating a double bond, but gloves will be a polymer of some sort. 'vinyl' indicates the structure of the monomer (which is subsequently polymerised). what you really need to know is nature of the vinyl side chain.
my guess would be that the monomer is vinyl chloride, so that the polymer is poly vinyl chloride or PVC. when this breaks down it could well be dangerous.
2007-08-08 10:30:16 · answer #2 · answered by vorenhutz 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
impossible reactions here, at least under normal circumstances
2007-08-08 11:20:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋