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offer no protection from non-stick saucepans?
Teflon with TM? It's just tetrafluoropolyethene!
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Sat 17 Jan 2004, 20:36,
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Teflon with TM? It's just tetrafluoropolyethene!
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But most chemicals have a trade name, do they not?
Let's face it, would you go into a shop and ask for a Polytetrafluoroethylene coated frying pan?
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Sat 17 Jan 2004, 20:38,
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Let's face it, would you go into a shop and ask for a Polytetrafluoroethylene coated frying pan?
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but I don't understand most crasy chemicals, whereas I knew what Teflon was doing GCSE chemistry.
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Sat 17 Jan 2004, 20:39,
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but then I remembered that my chemistry exam isn't until Wednesday. And soon afterwards that chemistry wasn't a good choice of A level.
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Sat 17 Jan 2004, 20:40,
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especially since they're not on the exam and I think I know pretty much everything on the syllabus, just need to read over it.
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Sat 17 Jan 2004, 20:46,
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as the normal names for them aren't the IUPAC names anyway.
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that it would've sparked all this chemistry talk I'd have never bothered ;)
(so says the politics student)
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Sat 17 Jan 2004, 20:47,
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(so says the politics student)
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Quite frankly, it could just as well have sparked a discussion about white water rafting if someone else had got there first.
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