A depiction of burning (pyrolysis) of Teflon (PTFE) which is cleary not a heat-processable plastic. Combustion isn't really the right word for this plastic, as it doesn't behave like other plastics, wood, or paper.
It's far easier to break the carbon-carbon bond in the chain and decompose it into a lighter fluorocarbon than it is to separate the fluorene from the carbon... And that's probably exactly what just happened. It's likely that you didn't burn anything and instead just decomposed it into lighter chain molecules. I don't think that the torch is capable of getting hot enough to decompose the fluorene.
Unmannedair
As a parrot owner this terrifies me, as burnt PTFE is instant death to birds.
DanielHJeffery
Well, Teflon is the one of the most dense polymers. It's almost as dense as aluminium. Really cool material.
qwb
His wife: I hope he isn’t cheating or something…
What he’s really doing:
LordLuigi
Amazing, and to think that this is an organic compound it's crazy
sergiomissaglia
@ 0:57 Only two atoms is Incorrect. “Only two elements” is correct. Teflon is still a polymer, right? @ 1:08, you can break those atoms apart. No, you can't. The molecule, as he states, you can break apart.
spiders
Remember that the Fluorine as a free gas is deadly. I would not recommend burning any PTFE products in any circumstances
henrikstenlund
YouTube's auto closed captioning thinks the torch is applause, lmao.
melongarb
So pretty much what we thought was going to happen
