The present paper is extended from the previous papers Part 1 and Part 2, and involves the results obtained from investigations carried out on the following two purposes.
1) The comparison of effects of Ultraviolet rays from different types of irradiation sources (Sunshine carbon arc light, Ultraviolet carbon arc light, Xenon light) on discoloration of dyed fabrics finishing with flame retardants of ammonium salt type.
2) An attempt to suppression of the marked discoloration observed with the flame retardants.
The results are summarized as follows
1) Among the above three sources, energy distributions of Sunshine carbon arc light and Xenon light show a higher similarlity with sun light, but only the energy distribution of UV arc light is different from the sun light. Neverthless, effects of the irradiation by these three sources on discoloration of dyed fabric showed a considerably similar tendency, which means that the radiation from any one of these three light sources can be used to evaluate the effects of discoloration as a substitution for the solar radiation.
2) A minute observation gave a further infomation that they showed some K/S difference one another,
i. e., Sunshine carbon arc light caused a largest difference and Xenon light a smallest according to the relative strength of irradiation energy.
3) Out of 31 kinds of compounds used to observe suppressing effect on discoloration caused by flame retardants, metallic borates showed the best inhibition simultaneously with considerable improvement of flame retardancy when combined with ammonium salts which otherwise cause an extremely large discoloration.
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