teflon

     

Teflon is a registere trademark and brand name of the DuPont company for products made from three types of fluorine-containing polymers (fluoropolymers).

Trivia about teflon

  • Ronald Reagan was described as this kind of politician because no criticism would stick to him
  • DuPont says that dishwashers are safe for this nonstick coating applied to the cooking surface of some pans
  • To stop staining, Farah makes men's slacks coated with this, usually found on cookware
  • Safire wrote, "A president's ability to deflect charges of sleaze...aimed at his administration" was a this-coated presidency
  • (Cheryl of the Clue crew is in the lab.) This trademarked DuPont technology protects each fiber of a carpet to prevent stains; you might know it better from cookware
  • Until Roy Plunkett invented this material, we spent hours scraping food off cookware...& we liked it!
  • In 1938 Roy Plunkett stuck with it & discovered this non-stick substance
  • In 1938 chemist Roy Plunkett invented polytetrafluorethylene, a nonstick substance better known as this