Electric breakdown of perfluorocarbon vapors

THE GASEOUS AND LIQUID perfluorocarbons, which were developed during World War II, are among the more recent synthetic materials which show promise of finding applications in the electrical insulation field. These compounds came into being through the pioneer work done at the Johns Hopkins, Pennsylvania State, and Purdue Universities, and also by E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Inc., and more recently by the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company. The perfluorocarbons are completely fluorinated carbon compounds, showing quite different properties from their hydrocarbon counterparts.