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# So bulletproof vests
offer no protection from non-stick saucepans?

Teflon with TM? It's just tetrafluoropolyethene!
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Sat 17 Jan 2004, 20:36, archived)
# Polytetrafluoroethylene, surely?
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?
(I helped save b3ta! HP hasn't been here in aaaaaages, Sat 17 Jan 2004, 20:38, archived)
# True,
but I don't understand most crasy chemicals, whereas I knew what Teflon was doing GCSE chemistry.
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Sat 17 Jan 2004, 20:39, archived)
# Or
Sildenafil Citrate
(I helped save b3ta! The Duke Of Your Fingers feels like an old man... mmm, tasty!, Sat 17 Jan 2004, 20:40, archived)
# Yeah
If you had to ask for that, it would make it harder.
(I helped save b3ta! DogHorse plop, Sat 17 Jan 2004, 20:47, archived)
# Rather than just
"stiffy-pills". Not that I'd know. Ahem.
(I helped save b3ta! The Duke Of Your Fingers feels like an old man... mmm, tasty!, Sat 17 Jan 2004, 20:54, archived)
# *cough*
poly(tetrafluoroethylene)
/*cough*
(I helped save b3ta! DogHorse plop, Sat 17 Jan 2004, 20:38, archived)
# I thought that,
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.
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Sat 17 Jan 2004, 20:40, archived)
# So revise on Tuesday. Easy.
(I helped save b3ta! DogHorse plop, Sat 17 Jan 2004, 20:45, archived)
# I knew it looked like that, just a bit rusty on naming polymers,
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.
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Sat 17 Jan 2004, 20:46, archived)
# Naming polymers isn't really that much of an issue
as the normal names for them aren't the IUPAC names anyway.
(I helped save b3ta! HP hasn't been here in aaaaaages, Sat 17 Jan 2004, 20:48, archived)
# The pic
was just for the sake of it. No patronizing intended.
(I helped save b3ta! DogHorse plop, Sat 17 Jan 2004, 20:49, archived)
# if I knew
that it would've sparked all this chemistry talk I'd have never bothered ;)

(so says the politics student)
(matt'twam'asi, Sat 17 Jan 2004, 20:47, archived)
# This is the nature of b3ta
Quite frankly, it could just as well have sparked a discussion about white water rafting if someone else had got there first.
(I helped save b3ta! HP hasn't been here in aaaaaages, Sat 17 Jan 2004, 20:49, archived)
# hey ho
I really should come here more often...
(matt'twam'asi, Sat 17 Jan 2004, 20:50, archived)
# I got my chemistry teacher angry
by telling her I wish I'd chosen to do English Literature Alevel instead.
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Sat 17 Jan 2004, 20:49, archived)
# I got my English Literature teacher angry
by sticking a bunsen burner up his tank top.
(I helped save b3ta! DogHorse plop, Sat 17 Jan 2004, 20:58, archived)