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A fluorocarbon with chlorine
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chlorofluorocarbon
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Wiktionary
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n. (context organic chemistry English) Any of a class of organic compounds in which the hydrogen atoms of a hydrocarbon are replaced with those of chlorine and fluorine; formerly used as refrigerants and aerosol can propellants but withdrawn due to causing ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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by 1946, from chloro- + fluorocarbon .
Wikipedia
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A chlorofluorocarbon ( CFC ) is an organic compound that contains only carbon , chlorine , and fluorine , produced as a volatile derivative of methane , ethane , and propane . They are also commonly known by the DuPont brand name Freon . The most common ...
WordNet
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n. a fluorocarbon with chlorine; formerly used as a refrigerant and as a propellant in aerosol cans; "the chlorine in CFCs causes depletion of atmospheric ozone" [syn: CFC ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It is free of chlorofluorocarbon gases which have been used to cool most fridges for decades. ▪ More chlorofluorocarbons must have been released in the industrialised north. ▪ The cocktail of greenhouse gases includes chlorofluorocarbons, ...
Usage examples of chlorofluorocarbon.
The first guys the feds went after for chlorofluorocarbon use were the big industries.
I should not have neglected to add that the damage to the ozone layer through the use of chlorofluorocarbons and similar substances in the twentieth century has brought about a serious intensification of incoming solar radiation, adding to the problem of global warming.
With an instinct for the regrettable that was almost uncanny, he invented chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs.
In short, chlorofluorocarbons may ultimately prove to be just about the worst invention of the twentieth century.
Moscow official after breaking a crime ring that had been smuggling thousands of tons of illegal ozone-eating chlorofluorocarbons from former Soviet factories under the brand names of legal refrigerants.
Over Antarctica, laser arrays glowed red, laboring to destroy tropospheric chlorofluorocarbons.
With an instinct for the regrettable that was almost uncanny, he invented chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs.
They have scavenged its ozone layer with chlorofluorocarbons, burdened it with acid aerosols, even laced it with radionuclides, but it is the warmup that has produced the most interesting effects.
The costs to contain the pollution - sulphur dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, cancer-causing industrial emissions, carbon dioxide from automobile exhaust - I could go on, but I don't want to bore you - the expenses will be enormous.