CHEMICAL MAKEUP OF GLIDE WAX

In many conditions, one of the goals of waxing is to make the base more water repellent.  In normal to wet conditions, water in the snow affixes itself to the base creating drag from suction and friction.  The softer fluorinated waxes are very hydrophobic (water repellent) making for faster skis in these conditions.  The contact angle between the water drop and the ski indicates how hydrophobic the base is (reflecting the properties of the wax in the base).  The conventional wax shown is a Hydrocarbon wax.  The Dibloc wax is clearly far more hydrophobic leading to substantially faster skis in wet snow.

The Dibloc family of waxes, or fluorinated wax, is a hybrid of a Hydocarbon wax and Fluorine. 

This is what a Hydrocarbon molecule (paraffin) looks like (System 3 or World Loppet)

Below is a Fluorocarbon molecule. (JetStream)  The JetStream family is the most water and dirt repellent of all of the waxes.

On the upper left, you can see the Hydrocarbon and on the right, the Fluorocarbon.  The Dibloc wax is a combination of the two resulting in amazing characteristics.  (HF and LF Dibloc).

The Dibloc (Fluorinated) molecules shown below illustrate a high quality and low quality (for skiing at least) Fluorinated Hydrocarbon molecule.  The first one contains far more Fluorine than the second one.  Some wax companies claim to have more Fluorine molecules in their wax than others.  (Or a higher percentage of Fluorine molecules)  Most likely this is because they are using the low quality Fluorine molecules which are cheaper and less potent.  For this reason, they need to increase the percentage of these Fluorine molecules.

The Toko Dibloc HF waxes contain more of these high quality molecules than the Dibloc LF waxes.  Furthermore, the softer waxes such as yellow (for conditions containing more water) contain more Fluorine than the harder waxes.  In cold and dry conditions, Fluorine is not so optimal - other additives are used to make the wax harder and more resistant to dry friction.

Molybdenum and Graphite are different substances.  Their molecular structures are shown below.  Toko was the first company to introduce Molybdenum glide waxes.  For the years after this introduction, other companies were saying how they were basically the same.  Now years later, most other companies have also switched to Molybdenum as its properties offer better glide, durability, and antistatic properties compared to Graphite.