Teflon developed and patented

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The best known brand name of the synthetic fluoropolymer polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) wasaccidentally invented by Roy Plunkett of Kinetic Chemicals in 1938, patented in 1941 and commercially produced under Teflon trademark in 1945.

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