TY - JOUR AU - Zamarad, A. AU - Martínez-Ramírez, S. AU - Thompson, G. E. AU - Moore, B. E. PY - 2000/06/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Effect of pollutant gases on electrical insulators deterioration JF - Materiales de Construcción JA - Mater. constr. VL - 50 IS - 258 SE - Research Articles DO - 10.3989/mc.2000.v50.i258.409 UR - https://materconstrucc.revistas.csic.es/index.php/materconstrucc/article/view/409 SP - 51-57 AB - In this work ceramic materials as electrical insulators have been exposed in laboratory-based chambers. Water contact angle and FTIR of the surface before and after pollutant exposures have been studied. The results indicated that the reaction between the policrete and the atmospheric pollutant produce some salts deposits, some hydrolysis over the resin surface, modifying water contact angle. ER -