Chemical Resistance  

CAUTION:

Within normal use temperatures, fluoroplastics are attacked by so few chemicals that it is easier to describe the exceptions rather than list the chemicals with which TEXfluor®  is compatible. TEXfluor® should not be used with the following:

1. Alkali metals such as elemental sodium, potassium, lithium, etc. The alkali metals remove fluorine from the polymer molecule.
    

2. Extremely potent oxidizers, fluorine (F₂) and related compounds (e.g., chlorine trifluoride, CIF₃). These can be handled by TEXfluor®, but only with great care, as fluorine is absorbed into the resins, and the mixture becomes sensitive to a source of ignition such as impact.
    

3. 80% NaOH (Sodium Hydroxide) or KOH (Potassium Hydroxide), metal hydrides such as Borances (e.g., B₂H₆), Aluminum Chloride, Ammonia (NH₃), certain Amines (R-NH₂) and imines (R=NH) and 70% Nitric Acid at temperatures near the suggested service limit.