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Teflon's Heat Resistant Properties
It's hard for me to intuitively say, so that's why it's heat resistant. Because that seems weird to me. And there are other things like, like Teflon is relatively inert just by itself. But if you heat it up, I believe the florins will break off and they'll form radicals. So I'm like, I don't know that we could have anticipated this. It might be one of those things where it turns out that this happens and maybe really good theoretical scientists could have predicted this too. Yes. Did you say if I was part of it, breathability? Breathability, the way the gases can pass through it relatively easily. That's
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