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A halocarbon in which some hydrogen atoms have been replaced by fluorine
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fluorocarbon
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a halocarbon in which some hydrogen atoms have been replaced by fluorine; used in refrigerators and aerosols
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1937, from fluoro- + carbon .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The Pertex shell has a fluorocarbon hydrophilic coating which is very effective in showers - water just rolls off. ▪ Vastly more fluorocarbons must have been released in the industrialised north.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fluorocarbons , sometimes referred to as perfluorocarbons or PFCs , are, strictly speaking, organofluorine compounds with the formula CF, i.e. they contain only carbon and fluorine , though the terminology is not strictly followed. Compounds with the prefix ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context chemistry English) any derivative of a hydrocarbon in which every hydrogen atom has been replaced by fluorine
Usage examples of fluorocarbon.
Its atmosphere bore no trace of the fluorocarbons or chloride plastics or plutonium that he would have expected to find there.
Guenther one final time, packed him in a bronze box full of concentrated fluorocarbons and enriched saline solution and loaded him onto a truck.
All he wanted at the moment was to get out of this fluorocarbon soup, spin himself a nice tight, dry, little overnight cocoon somewhere, go to sleep, and dream the lucid dreams his people always dreamed, about his wives and children back home in a friendly universe that seemed further away to him every day.