February 1, 2010
Which Type Of Things Contain Teflon (other Than Cookware) Is It Contained In Clothing Fibres, For Example?
Is it also contained in any type of carpet sprays, plastics we put our food in or any other type of thing that can directly affect our health?
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Amongst many other industrial applications, PTFE is used to coat certain types of hardened, armour-piercing bullets, so as to reduce the amount of wear on the firearm’s rifling. These are often mistakenly referred to as “cop-killer” bullets on account of PTFE’s supposed ability to ease a bullet’s passage through body armour. Any armour-piercing effect is, however, purely a function of the bullet’s velocity and rigidity rather than a property of PTFE.
PTFE is an excellent electrical insulator with good dielectric properties. This is especially true at high radio frequencies, making it eminently suitable for use as an insulator in cables and connector assemblies and as a material for printed circuit boards. Combined with its high melting temperature this makes it the material of choice as a high performance substitute for the weaker and more meltable polyethylene that is commonly used in low-cost applications.
Due to its low friction, it is used for applications where sliding action of parts is needed: bearings, bushings, gears, slide plates, etc. In these applications it performs significantly better than nylon and acetal; it is comparable with UHMWPE, although UHMWPE is more resistant to wear than Teflon. For these applications, versions of teflon with mineral oil or molybdenum disulfide embedded as additional lubricants in its matrix are being manufactured.
Gore-Tex is a material incorporating teflon membrane with micropores
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Also you will find it in some paints, fabric to make is dirt/liquid reppelant, tape used by plumbers etc
It might be in certain types of cloths. I know that some types of bullets are made with it also.
In our car wash there is Teflon in one of the coatings.