Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) also known as C8 and perfluorooctanoate is a synthetic perfluorinated carboxylic acid and fluorosurfactant. One industrial application is as a surfactant in the emulsion polymerization of fluoropolymers. It has been used in the manufacture of such prominent consumer goods as Teflon and Gore-Tex. PFOA has been manufactured since the 1940s in industrial quantities.
