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It is a chemical compound commonly known as PTFE, or by the brand name Teflon. It is used as a non-stick coating in cookware and as a material in various industrial applications. Example: The new non-stick pan is made with a coating of polytetrafluoroethylene, making it easy to cook and clean without any food sticking to the surface.
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polytetrafluoroethylene
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A tough synthetic resin used to make seals and bearings and to create a nonstick coating on cooking utensils.
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Sodium-ammonia solutions are used to blacken polytetrafluoroethylene (Teflon) to prepare its surface for cementing to other materials.
2. Polymeric films: these are synthetic substances such as polytetrafluoroethylene and polychlorofluoroethylene.
Blends of the latter resin with polytetrafluoroethylene, sold under the Ekonol trademark, are employed as self-lubricating bearings, O-ring seals, and pump vanes.
The most widely used fluorocarbon polymer is polytetrafluoroethylene, a high-melting nonstick plastic commonly known by the trademark Teflon.
Tetrafluoroethylene is the monomer from which the polymer polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE; familiarly known by its trade name, Teflon) is prepared.
Its strong carbon-fluorine bonds make polytetrafluoroethylene relatively inert toward both thermal and chemical degradation.
Such can be provided by thin sheets that have (1) a waterproof layer usually with polytetrafluoroethylene (Teflon), (2) an active layer of a catalyst (e.g., platinum, gold, or a complex organometallic compound on a carbon base), and (3) a conducting layer to carry the current generated in or out of the electrode.
Tetrafluoroethylene, a colourless, odourless, faintly toxic gas belonging to the family of organic halogen compounds; it is the starting material in the manufacture of polytetrafluoroethylene, a valuable synthetic resin.
Nonstick frying pans have been coated with a fluorocarbon resin, the best known of which is polytetrafluoroethylene.
The discovery of polytetrafluoroethylene, or PTFE, produced a plastic with outstanding resistance to most chemicals.
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This massive polytetrafluoroethylene-roofed structure housed a variety of exhibition pavilions that were individually executed by noted British designers.
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