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Polystyrene

What happen in the atmosfere when polystyrene burn ?
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Re:Polystyrene by mkinnan on Sunday February 06, 2011 @10:49AM (#2185762)
"The main groups of vaporized compounds generated were monoalkyl-substituted aromatic hydrocarbons and their oxidized products, of which styrene monomer and benzaldehyde were the most abundant."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/734408