Perfluorooctanoic acid
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title:
Perfluorooctanoic acid
text:
Perfluorooctanoic acid is a perfluorinated carboxylic acid produced and used worldwide as an industrial surfactant in chemical processes and as a material feedstock. PFOA is considered a surfactant, or fluorosurfactant, due to its chemical structure, which consists of a perfluorinated, n-heptyl "tail group" and a carboxylic acid "head group". The head group can be described as hydrophilic while the fluorocarbon tail is both hydrophobic and lipophobic. The International Agency for Research on Can
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Perfluorinated carboxylic acid
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluorooctanoic_acid
date created:
2004-07-14T21:33:45Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T08:20:11Z
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