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The presented method of measuring the concentrations of gaseous products resulting from thermal decomposition consists in the application of a fluidised bed reactor, which makes it possible to conduct the decomposition of a sample at a precisely assumed temperature value and imitate the conditions of a real fire. At a temperature lower than 700 \u00b0C, the gases resulting from the thermal decomposition of composites are particularly toxic due to the presence of significant concentrations of formaldehyde that does not undergo oxidation to more stable inorganic products. At a temperature of 600 \u00b0C the toxicity of gases for the samples with ceramizable additives and without them was similar. In the first case, there appeared to be a positive synergistic effect of mineral and basalt additives, and the basalt additives themselves increased the toxicity of gases. At higher temperatures of decomposition, the exponentially increasing rate of the oxidation reaction in the gaseous phase results in the lack of significant differences between the toxicity of gases for the samples with and without basalt additives. The toxicometric index value at temperatures of 700 \u00b0C and 800 \u00b0C was by one or two orders of magnitude higher, respectively, than the one that was observed in the temperature range of 500\u2013600 \u00b0C, as inorganic components appear in the place of formaldehyde.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ma12213478","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,10,25]],"date-time":"2019-10-25T03:20:36Z","timestamp":1571973636000},"page":"3478","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Impact of Basalt Filler and Ceramizable Additives on the Toxicity of Gaseous Products Emitted from Thermal Decomposition of Silicone Rubber Composites"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5131-0699","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Przemys\u0142aw","family":"Rybi\u0144ski","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Chemistry, The Jan Kochanowski University, \u017beromskiego 5, 25-369 Kielce, Poland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Bart\u0142omiej","family":"Syrek","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Chemistry, The Jan Kochanowski University, \u017beromskiego 5, 25-369 Kielce, Poland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1898-1236","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Witold","family":"\u017bukowski","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Cracow University of Technology, Warszawska 24, 31-155 Krak\u00f3w, Poland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Dariusz","family":"Brad\u0142o","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Cracow University of Technology, Warszawska 24, 31-155 Krak\u00f3w, Poland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,10,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"79","DOI":"10.1016\/j.firesaf.2017.05.003","article-title":"Fire toxicity\u2014The elephant in the room?","volume":"91","author":"Stec","year":"2017","journal-title":"Fire Saf. 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