Even the air felt thinner; for a start, it wasn't vibrating with fluorocarbons.

These pure fluorocarbons, which come in powder or solid form, are insanely slippery, and shockingly expensive.

Some liquids -such as fluorocarbons -have come close to being a successful replacement, Miodownik says.

He said people can check labels to make sure household products don't contain PFOA or toxic fluorocarbons in general.

We need to blast him with an aerosol spray that has lots of chlorinated fluorocarbons to slow him down.

He was criticized for spending too much on a National Museum of Weather and for his war on fluorocarbons, known as the "gas crusade."