Fluorinated rubber includes copolymers of monomers containing fluorine, mainly vinylidene fluoride and hexafluoropropylene or vinylidene fluoride and trifluorochloroethylene.
The content of fluorine makes them non-combustible. Vulcanisates of fluorine rubber are particularly resistant to temperature and chemicals. They are resistant to ozone, ultraviolet rays, aggressive chemicals, oils, fuels.
Fluorine elastomers show little permeability to gases and minimal decrease in weight in vacuum conditions. Mechanical properties of these vulcanisates are comparable to those of traditional rubber mixtures.
As fluorine rubber is a very expensive material (its price is 25 times higher than that of nitrile rubber), it should be used only in such cases when the use of other kind of rubber is impossible.
| Temperature range | -25°C ÷ +200°C, short-term up to +250°C |
| Hardness (IRHD) | 65, 70, 80 |
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