Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun tetrafluoroethylene

1 sense of tetrafluoroethylene

Sense 1
tetrafluoroethylene -- (a flammable gaseous fluorocarbon used in making plastics (polytetrafluoroethylene resins))
       => fluorocarbon -- (a halocarbon in which some hydrogen atoms have been replaced by fluorine; used in refrigerators and aerosols)