- fluoroplastic
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/floor'euh plas"tik, flawr'-, flohr'-/, n. Chem.any of the plastics, as Teflon, in which hydrogen atoms of the hydrocarbon chains are replaced by fluorine atoms. Also called fluoropolymer /floor'euh pol"euh meuhr, flawr'-, flohr'-/.[FLUORO- + PLASTIC]
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Universalium. 2010.