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Article #86305Re: The Great Boycott
From: Brian Liedtke
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 00:00
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elvira@netcom.com wrote: > Hmm, since freon is much heavier than air. How does it go stright to the ozone layer? It's been my experience that it sinks and spread out along the ground. Brian Liedtke > Well maybe if we were really more informed about the processes that they > use to make thse things then maybe we would be in a better position to > boycott them. I used to work as a chemist and I personally would boycott > DuPont for the way they used to make teflon coatings. However I don't > know if they still do the same stuff or not. It used to be teflon > coating immersed in pure freon (bad for the ozone layer). The part you > wanted to have a teflon coating had to be dipped into the freon ....when > freon is exposed it evaporates quickly into the atmosphere and goes > straight to kill the ozone. But I think they changed it a little...but I > don't know. I am sure DuPont doesn't want us to know anyway. > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.pagosa.com/ > Pagosa Springs Colorado On-Line > elvira@pagosa.com
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