Glass plates and polyethylene foams

Thanks much, this is fantastically useful information.  The CCI stuff
should show up in the CHIN materials database but we shall see.

>BTW I hope you didn't get the idea that polyethylenes are bad.  They
>are

nope, worry not.  I have a wholesome appreciation of the distinctions
to be drawn from materials as they appear in chemistry books and
materials as they come off the factory floor.

>However, even if the methods are not directly applicable to your problem,
>I think that the information would be useful.

Actually, except that there is the added problem that in my
application the plates will be stored for a longer time, so things
like outgassing are more critical, transport packaging would seem to
be a most relevant matter.  Although the sorts of stresses in a quake
*can* be different than those in a rough sea voyage, for packages as
small as this, the shocks seem pretty similar (eg we are aiming for
something that could withstand a fall from the top of a library shelf
(I havent figured out how much additional protection will be aimed for
(eg how many mountains of crud should be able to fall on top of the
package.)
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