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What does Teflon stand for?

Updated: 9/20/2023
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Teflon was so named by the DuPont research chemist who discovered it accidentally in 1938. Roy Plunkett devised the name "Teflon" as an abbreviation for the compound's scientific name: tetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). There are a number of Teflon-brand synthetic flouropolymers available today, and, though they are not all PTFE-based, still use "Teflon" in their respective brand names.

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