Teflon vs Silicone - What's the difference?
teflon | silicone |
Multiple film, resin, coatings, fabric and surface protectors made with PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) or fluoropolymer and surfactants not made with PTFE.
(informal, of a politician) Having an undamageable reputation (by analogy with nonstick Teflon surfaces).
* 1995 , Liz Cunningham, Talking Politics: Choosing the President in the Television Age :
(chemistry) Any of a class of inert, semi-inorganic polymeric compounds (polysiloxanes), that have a wide range of thermal stability and extreme water repellence, used in a very wide range of industrial applications, and in prosthetic replacements for body parts
As a proper noun Teflon
is multiple film, resin, coatings, fabric and surface protectors made with PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) or fluoropolymer and surfactants not made with PTFE.As an adjective Teflon
is having an undamageable reputation (by analogy with nonstick Teflon surfaces).As a noun silicone is
any of a class of inert, semi-inorganic polymeric compounds (polysiloxanes), that have a wide range of thermal stability and extreme water repellence, used in a very wide range of industrial applications, and in prosthetic replacements for body parts.teflon
English
(wikipedia Teflon)Proper noun
(en proper noun)Adjective
(-)- But Ronald Reagan, by everybody's definition, was the Teflon president, and it wasn't that the media tried to touch him and failed.