Date: Fri Feb 16 17:41:33 2007

Author: Jerry DiMarco

Subject: Re: Van de Graaffs

Post:
Yeah I think the original was PTFE. Then they continued producing
variants like FEP, TFE, PFA. Now there's NXT, AF, Tefzel, probably
more. They all have different characteristics. Shopping is never easy -
that's why I hate shopping...

Jerry


At 04:05 PM 2/16/2007, you wrote:
>I used to know that there were at least two different materials named
>Teflon with different three-letter names
>
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>Might have been TFE and FEP.
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>Clarence Bennett
>Oakland University
>Dept. of Physics, (retired)
>111 Hannah
>Rochester MI 48309
>248 370 3418


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