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PFOA
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Perfluorooctanoic acid
Perfluorooctanoic acid
(
PFOA
), also known as
C8
and
perfluorooctanoate
, is a synthetic
perfluorinated carboxylic acid
and
fluorosurfactant
. One industrial application is as a
surfactant
in the
emulsion polymerization
of
fluoropolymers
. It has been used in the manufacture of such prominent consumer goods as
polytetrafluoroethylene
(commercially known as Teflon). PFOA has been manufactured since the 1940s in industrial quantities. It is also formed by the
degradation
of
precursors
such as some
fluorotelomers
.
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