tetrafluoroethylene
noun
tetrafluoroethylene is a noun meaning “The gaseous unsaturated halogenated hydrocarbon, F₂C=CF₂, that is used as a monomer in the production of polytetrafluoroethylene” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-E-T-R-A-F-L-U-O-R-O-E-T-H-Y-L-E-N-E, and it appears about once in every 72 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of tetrafluoroethylene is tetrafluoroethylenes.
What does tetrafluoroethylene mean?
noun
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The gaseous unsaturated halogenated hydrocarbon, F₂C=CF₂, that is used as a monomer in the production of polytetrafluoroethylene
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of tetrafluoroethylene
- tetrafluoroethylenes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is tetrafluoroethylene?
Tetrafluoroethylene appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you abbreviate tetrafluoroethylene?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of tetrafluoroethylene: TFE.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).