polyvinylidene fluoride
Chemistry
noun
A tough, thermally stable, highly crystalline, thermoplastic polymer having a repeating unit —CH2CF2, with similar uses to polyvinylidene chloride and also (because of its piezoelectric properties) used to make flexible transducers; abbreviated PVDF.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in Journal of the American Chemical Society.
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