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AMENDMENT NO. 1 DECEMBER 2017

TO
IS 2508 : 2016 POLYETHYLENE FILMS AND SHEETS —
SPECIFICATION
(Third Revision)

(Page 1, clause 2) ― Delete the following reference:

IS No. Title
13360 (Part 8/Sec 8) : Plastics — Methods of testing : Part 8 Permanence/
2004 chemical properties, Section 8 Determination of ash —
General methods

(Page 1, clause 2) — Insert the following new references at an appropriate

places:
IS No. Title
245 : 1988 Specification for trichloroethylene (third revision)
1747 : 1972 Specification for nitrogen (first revision)
13360 (Part 5/Sec 23) : Plastics — Methods of testing : Part 5 Mechanical
1996 properties, Section 23 Determination of tear resistance
of plastics film and sheeting — Elmendorf method

[Page 1, clause 3 (a)] ― Substitute ‘499’ for ‘500’.

[Page 1, clause 3 (b)] ― Substitute ‘499’ for ‘500’.

[Page 3, clause 5.1.6 (a)] ― Substitute the following for the existing:

‘a) Annex A, the percentage of carbon black in material shall be 2 - 3 percent by

mass;’

[Page 3, clause 5.1.6 (b)] ― Substitute the following for the existing:

‘b) Annex A, ash content shall be less than 0.2 percent; and’

(Page 3, clause 5.2.2, value under ‘Tolerance, percent’) ― Substitute

‘− 10’ for ‘± 10’.
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[Page 3, Table 1, Sl No. (v), col (12)] ― Substitute ‘13360 (Part 5/Sec 23)’
for ‘Annex B’.

[Page 4, Table 3, Sl No. i (a)] ― Delete.

[Page 4, Table 3, Sl No. i (b), col (2)] ― Substitute ‘N/mm’ for ‘N/mm2’.

[Page 4, Table 3, Sl No. i (c)] ― Delete.

[Page 4, Table 3, Foot Note 1), sentence 2] ― Delete ‘Yield elongation is

calculated using a gauge length of 33 mm’.

[Page 5, Table 4, Sl No. i (a)] ― Substitute ‘N/mm’ for ‘N/mm2’.

[Page 5, Table 4, Sl No. i (b)] ― Substitute ‘N/mm’ for ‘N/mm2’.

(Page 6, Table 5) ― Substitute the table for the existing table:

Table 5 Scale of Sampling and Permissible Number of Defectives

for Polyethylene Film/Sheet (Type I to IV)
(Clauses 11.1.1 and 11.2.4)
Sl No. Lot Size Number of Permissible
Rolls/Folded Number of
N Films/Sheets to Defectives
be Selected
n

(1) (2) (3) (4)

i) 1 1 0
ii) 2 to 15 2 0
iii) 16 to 40 3 0
iv) 41 to 65 5 0
v) 66 to 110 7 0
vi) 111 to 180 10 0
vii) 181 to 300 15 0
viii) 301 to 500 25 1
ix) 501 to 800 35 2
x) 801 to 1 300 50 3
xi) 1 301 to 2 000 90 4
xii) 2 001 to 3 000 125 5

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(Page 6, clause 11.2.5, line 4) ― Insert ‘puncture resistance,’ after

‘resistance’.

(Page 6, clause 12) ― Insert following new Annex A at the end and
renumber the subsequent annexes:

‘ANNEX A
[Clause 5.1.6 (a), (b)]
DETERMINATION OF CARBON BLACK AND ASH CONTENT

A-1 APPARATUS

A-1.1 Combustion Boat, made of porcelain or silica, having minimum

dimensions of 75 mm length, 9 mm width and 8 mm height.

A-1.2 Combustion Tube, made of hard glass, of approximately 30 mm

diameter and 400 ± 50 mm length.

A-1.3 Gas Flow Meter, for measuring and controlling the rate of flow of
nitrogen within 1.7 ± 0.3 l/min.

A-1.4 Thermometer, in the range 250° to 550°C.

A-1.5 Furnace, to accommodate the combustion tube and to give temperatures

up to at least 500°C.

A-2 REAGENTS

A-2.1 Nitrogen, gas (see IS 1747).

A-2.2 Trichloroethylene (see IS 245).

A-3 PROCEDURE

A-3.1 Heat the combustion boat to red heat, allow it to cool in a desiccator for at
least 30 min and weigh to the nearest 0.000 1 g. Place about 1 g of the sample of
the polyethylene compound, accurately weighed, in the boat. Place the boat with
the sample in the middle of the combustion tube. Insert a stopper carrying a

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thermometer and a tube for the admission of nitrogen into one end of the
combustion tube. The thermometer shall be so adjusted that its bulb is in contact
with the boat. Pass nitrogen through the combustion tube at a rate of 1.7 ±
0.3 l/min and maintain the same rate of flow during the subsequent heating.
Place the combustion tube in the furnace and connect its outlet to two cold traps
in series, both containing trichloroethylene and the first being cooled with solid
carbon dioxide. Put the outlet tube from the second trap to a fume hood or to the
outside atmosphere.

A-3.2 Heat the furnace to 500 ± 5°C and maintain this temperature for 10 min.
Disconnect the outlet tube from the cold traps. Withdraw the combustion tube
containing the boat from the furnace and allow to cool for 5 min, maintaining
the flow of nitrogen at the same rate as before. Remove the boat from the
nitrogen inlet side of the combustion tube, allow it to cool in the desiccator for
20 to 30 min and weigh to the nearest 0.000 1 g (W1). Heat the boat strongly in
air to constant weight (W2).

A-4 CALCULATION

A-4.1 Carbon black content, percent by weight = 100 × (W1 – W2)

W3
A-4.2 Ash content, percent by weight = 100 × (W2 – W4)
W3
where
W1 = weight of the boat before heating in air, in g;
W2 = weight of the boat after heating in air, in g;
W3 = weight of the material taken for the test, in g; and
W4 = weight of empty boat, in g.’

(Page 6, Annex B, clause reference) — Delete ‘Table 1, Sl No. (v),’

(Page 7, clause B-4, line 2) ― Substitute ‘65 ± 5’ for ‘65 + 5’ and ‘27 ± 2’
for ‘27+2’.

(Page 7, clause B-5.1, line 3) ― Substitute ‘51 ± 5’ for ‘51+5’.

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(Page 8, clause C-2.2, line 3) ― Substitute ‘45 ± 0.025 mm’ for

‘45 + 0.025 mm’.

(Page 8, clause C-2.2, line 6) ― Substitute ‘100 ± 0.025 mm’ for

‘100 + 0.025 mm’.

(Page 8, clause C-2.3, line 1) ― Substitute ‘8 ± 0.1 mm’ for

‘8 + 0.01 mm’.

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