The History of Polytetrafluoroethylene Discovery and

Mainly out of curiosity, they decided to cut the cylinder open. (We wonder just how many chemists would have decided to go this far and not consider it simply a mistake and throw it out) More powder was discovered packed in the bottom of the cylinder. They had discovered Teflon. Plunkett, in his article The History of Polytetrafluoroethylene Discovery and Development ... 

Plunkett, R. J., The History of Polytetrafluoroethylene Discovery and Development, in High Performance Polymers Their Origin and Development, Proc. Symp. Hist. High Perf Polymers at the ACS Meeting in New York, April 1986, (R. B. Seymour and G. S. Kirshenbaum, eds ), Elsevier, New York (1987)... 

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