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fluoroplastic

[ floor-uh-plas-tik, flawr-, flohr- ]

noun

, Chemistry.
  1. any of the plastics, plastics, as Teflon, in which hydrogen atoms of the hydrocarbon chains are replaced by fluorine atoms.

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