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dhughes on Nov 22, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bill Gates funds creation of graphene condoms

Teflon or PFOA is supposedly in everyone's blood already at least in the US and probably most western nations it's so pervasive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluorooctanoic_acid

ars on Nov 22, 2013 [–]

> Teflon or PFOA

Teflon and PFOA are not the same thing!

Teflon is made from PFOA true, but the properties of the two are quite different.

Teflon is completely inert, PFOA isn't.

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