>On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Mark Willis wrote: > > (Want to know the reason Teflon is so "inert"? You have this chain of > > atoms, all set up so THE outside thing all reagents see is the Fluorine > > molecules on the outside of the molecule. It's pretty hard to etch > > Fluorine! Thus Teflon slides well, you cannot glue to it worth beans, > > and so forth. Heat that stuff up and break that molecule up, you don't > > want to breathe that... > > > > Mark > >Now some one was telling me the other day, during a conversation about, er >*looks round for government officials* teflon/white lockite/magnesium >cored hellhound rockets, that Teflon needs the kind of temperatures you >get in thermonuclear explosions before the Flourine will be liberated. [quite late in responding] Well, YEAH, otherwise, why would we be able to use it on our pots and pans for cooking? \0 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org
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