Are these gaskets suitable to use in our application?

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Are these gaskets suitable to use in our application?

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https://www.gvc.net/p/13/ptfe-blue-sani ... mp-gaskets" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow
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(not recommended where large temperature variations occur frequently, leakage can occur). Does that indicate anything to you ?
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Don't know about "blue PTFE". But I've bought the white PTFE gaskets from GVC.
https://www.gvc.net/p/12/ptfe-white-san ... mp-gaskets" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

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Thanks for yer input fella's! Since PTFE is one (the only?) of the recommended material for gaskets I thought these would probably be okay.
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The question is, if blue ptfe is 100% ptfe.

Here
http://www.klinger.se/en/products/gaske ... -blue-ptfe" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow
it is ptfe filled with sintered glass. I don't know what the glas helps, but glass is inert and ptfe too. So I see no problem.

On other sites it looks more like "blue ptfe" is a trademark only for normal (pure) ptfe.
This is ok too of course.
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