In dissecting the cylinder, he found a mass of white solid in a quantity similar to that of the tetrafluoroethylene gas.
Tests showed the substance was resistant to corrosion from most acids, bases and solvents and had better high temperature stability than any other plastic.
By early 1941, a crash program was making substantial quantities of PTFE for the Manhattan Project.
[1][2][3][4] Fluoropolymers share the properties of fluorocarbons in that they are not as susceptible to the van der Waals force as hydrocarbons.
Also, they are stable due to the stability multiple carbon–fluorine bonds add to a chemical compound.