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Long chain polymers owe many of their properties to the structural arrangements of their molecules and are extensively used for many industrial and applied sciences. One of such application is their perspective use in the field of solid-state nuclear track detectors. However they are profoundly influenced by low LET radiations exposure and new structural arrangements may emerge. CR-39 is one of the most popular polymeric track detectors, however its aliphatic nature restricts its applications. Thus in the present investigations the damage densities produced by solar radiations to the polymer have been estimated by analyzing the structural, physical and etching properties of the polymer. The polymer is found to be highly sensitive towards solar radiations and great changes in physical and structural properties of polymer have been observed. The sensitivity of the polymer has been found to decrease by 83.40% during eight months.
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Prasher, S., Kumar, M. & Singh, S. The influence of solar radiations to the physical and structural properties of CR-39. Indian J Phys 83, 821–826 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12648-009-0032-0
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