The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Under what circumstances is teflon developed?
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In work at the Oak Ridge facility, there is no practical material barrier between circulating oil and tubes of gas, causing a shut down in one of the plants. Columbia University designes a barrier material of a new kind of plastics, which is later patented as teflon.