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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 5.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Sci Process Impacts. 2020 Oct 30;22(12):2345–2373. doi: 10.1039/d0em00291g

Table 2:

PFAS with more than 10 assigned uses. Numbers based on counts of uses and patents, not on detections in products. The structures of these substances are shown in Figure 2.

Substance CAS number Assigned uses

Ammonium perfluorooctanoate 3825-26-1 14
Potassium perfluorooctane sulfonate 2795-39-3 16
Potassium N-ethyl perfluorooctane sulfonamidoacetate 2991-51-7 21
1-Propanaminium, 3-[[(1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4,5,5,6,6,7,7,8,8,8-heptadecafluorooctyl)sulfonyl]amino]-N,N,N-trimethyl-, iodide (1:1) 1652-63-7 17
1-Propanaminium, 3-[[(1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4,5,5,6,6,7,7,8,8,9,9,9-heptadecafluoro octyl)sulfonyl]amino]-N,N,N-trimethyl-, chloride 38006-74-5 21
Oxirane, 2-[[(3,3,4,4,5,5,6,6,7,7,8,8,8-tridecafluorooctyl)oxy]methyl]- 122193-68-4 11
1H-Pentafluoroethane 354-33-6 10
Pentane, 1,1,1,2,2,3,4,5,5,5-decafluoro- 138495-42-8 12
Methyl perfluoropropyl ether 375-03-1 13
Methyl perfluorobutyl ether 163702-07-6 16
Methyl perfluoroisobutyl ether 163702-08-7 16
Ethyl perfluorobutyl ether 163702-05-4 12
Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) 9002-84-0 37
Poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) 24937-79-9 17
Ethylene tetrafluoroethylene copolymer (ETFE) 25038-71-5 10