On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Mark Willis wrote: > King, Tim wrote: > > <snipped> > > half the price. Also, if their info is accurate, it said that Kydex softens > > at 280-300 degrees while ABS softens at 250, and Kydex, if overheated emits > > cyanide gas while ABS just smells badly. (?!?!) > > Some plastics happily emit Phosgene at high temperatures. Don't > overhear your wearables, folks <G> > > (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. -- LisaP (was RobP, but I wanna change!) -- 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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