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This International Standard specifies a test method to determine the degree and rate of aerobic biodegradation of plastic materials when settled on marine sandy sediment at the interface between seawater and the seafloor, by measuring the evolved carbon dioxide.

This test method is a simulation under laboratory conditions of the habitat found in different seawater/sediment-areas in the sea, e.g. in a benthic zone where sunlight reaches the ocean floor (photic zone) that, in marine science, is called sublittoral zone

The determination of biodegradation of plastic materials buried in marine sediment is outside the scope of this International Standard.

Measurement of aerobic biodegradation can also be obtained by monitoring the oxygen consumption, as described in ISO 18830.

The conditions described in this International Standard may not always correspond to the optimum conditions for the maximum degree of biodegradation to occur.

This document describes a test method to determine the activation energy (Ea) of photochemical degradation reactions in accelerated weathering tests according to the Arrhenius model in the most comprehensive manner.

The determination of activation energies of photo-chemical degradation processes allows including the temperature into the evaluation and correlation of different weathering experiments as quantitative factor. Knowing the activation energy will improve the reliability and predictive value of artificial weathering.

NOTE The use of the Arrhenius concept in artificial weathering simplifies complex chemical degradation processes and is therefore in this context a limited model to estimate the temperature dependency in weathering. However, bye following some basic experimental preconditions, the relevance of the estimates can be increased.

This International Standard specifies test methods for adhesives for bonding parquet and similar wood floorings to a subfloor. It also specifies the minimum requirements for shear strength, tensile strength to be achieved with these adhesives.

This International Standard does not refer to the selection and installation of parquet floorings.