Tige en PTFE

When I reference the abbreviation Tige en PTFE, chances are you might not think about what it really stands for. For any typical person, their first guess might be “poor teacher feeling exhausted” or perhaps “proud ticklers fighting exhortation”. Chances are, the last thing (the non-scientifically minded) would come up with is polytetrafluoroethylene. That’s right, sound it out: polly – tetra -floro – ethel – een. Polytetrafluoroethylene, otherwise known as PTFE, is a happy accident…