Talk:Fluoropolymer

zeusinc.com external link

I am seeing that this is just a stub. It is true that it needs to be built out by itself and not just with links, but I do not have that authority (I don't know enough about fluoropolymers.). I keep trying to add a link to a great fluoropolymer article but someone named Femto keeps deleting it. He considers the link to a white paper to be link spam.

Is anyone in charge of this page, and do you want fluoropolymer links? Rsteif 21:12, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

In the first few sentences of the linked web page, there are a few words which made me suspect it was another infomercial article. But I kept going anyway (only because there was question about the appropriateness of the link) and discovered the link is a great reference for the article. Perhaps the reverter got as far as those suspicious words in deciding to revert. A thought process of "spam until proven innocent" saves me time and tends to be correct most of the time.

The "right thing" is to use the facts from the web page and incorporate them into the article, giving the link as a reference. Perhaps I'll do that when I get a few spare hours. — EncMstr 00:17, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi Encyclopedia Master. I would definitely prefer your solution but in the meantime, I found a .pdf without any marketing stuff in it and put it in as an external link. Please feel free to delete and use your solution when you get to it - Rsteif 16:31, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

3M

3M is a major player in fluoropolymers - any article should include them as well as other manufacturer apart from DuPont and Solvay--Oldboltonian (talk) 07:44, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Any explanation?

The article states that "Fluoropolymers were accidentally discovered in 1938 by Dr. Roy J. Plunkett when he was polymerizing tetrafluoroethylene to form polytetrafluoroethylene". That makes it sound like he was purposely polymerizing TFE and accidentally ended up with PTFE... which of course is absurd. My guess is that he accidentally polymerized TFE when he was trying to do something else, but I'm not going to edit without any good reason to believe it... Anyone know better than me? • TheBendster (talk) 1 May 2010, 16:56 (UTC)

He had a stuck cannister of TFE (doesn't matter why he had the substance). Polymerization was discovered when he cut the cannister open. Polymerization just happened. TFE -> PTFE + F2 (maybe the F2 reacted with cylinder walls, not sure, doesn't matter).TCO (talk) 19:47, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

Why would F₂ be produced? H₂ isn't produced in ethylene polymerisation. nC₂F₄ → (CF₂)_2n. --Ben (talk) 20:37, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

You're quite right, my bad. C2F4 -> -(CF2)- TCO (talk) 22:06, 27 December 2011 (UTC)