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Polytetrafluoroethylene is a polymer where the individual monomers are fluorinated alkanes. I fail to see how a polymer made entirely of fluorinated alkyl subs
by StableAlkyne 3y ago
Polytetrafluoroethylene is a polymer where the individual monomers are fluorinated alkanes.
I fail to see how a polymer made entirely of fluorinated alkyl substances is not a polyfluorinated alkyl substance. I'm not really sure how one could argue they're not if we ignore politics and just look at chemical nomenclature
- timr 3y ago> I fail to see how a polymer made entirely of fluorinated alkyl substances is not a polyfluorinated alkyl substance. It is a "polyfluorinated alkyl". The term is so broad as to be meaningless, and PFOA is wildly different, chemically and physically, than PTFE. One is a water-soluble acid. The other is an insoluble substance that is one of the most chemically inert things known to science. It's like labeling something as "fluoride-containing" and panicking because your city water supply has it (which some people do, but I digress).