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Freon

1932, proprietary name in U.S. for fluorocarbons used in refrigeration technology. "The name was apparently constructed from fre(eze) + -on used as an arbitrary suffix" [Flood].

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freon

alt. (context organic compound English) Any of several non-flammable refrigerants based on halogenated hydrocarbon including R-12, R-22, and R-23. n. (context organic compound English) Any of several non-flammable refrigerants based on halogenated hydrocarbon including R-12, R-22, and R-23.

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Freon

Freon is a registered trademark of The Chemours Company, which it uses for a number of halocarbon products. They are stable, nonflammable, moderately toxic gases or liquids which have typically been used as refrigerants and as aerosol propellants. These include the chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) that cause ozone depletion (such as chlorodifluoromethane), but also include newer refrigerants which typically include fluorine instead of chlorine and do not deplete the ozone layer. Not all refrigerant is labelled as "Freon" since Freon is a brand name for the refrigerants R-12, R-13B1, R-22, R-502, and R-503 manufactured by The Chemours Company.

Usage examples of "freon".

As it turned out, what got dumped in the landfill was not always cleanacetone, hospital waste, veterinary remains, chemical drums and, by some accounts, Freon and asbestos.

It was like something out ofan alien world with its long mazes of catwalks, freon ducts, and adizzy 136-foot drop to the rumbling power supplies below .

The circuit breaker was on the otherside of the freon pumps to the left of the body.

This is similar to what the Du Pont Corporation did when the first research was published in 1974 showing that their Freon product attacks the protective ozone layer.

That was a pretty suburban way to trash a kitchen - letting the freon out of your fridge.

The detective on the phone explained how someone had sprayed a canister of Freon into the dead-bolt lock and then tapped the lock with a cold chisel to shatter the cylinder.

In my pockets were a freon spray, a scrambler, a laser torch, and an ultrasonic whistle.

It was like something out of an alien world with its long mazes of catwalks, freon ducts, and a dizzy 136-foot drop to the rumbling power supplies below .

The freon vents were still belching swirling mist through the redness, and from the higher-pitched drone of the generators, Susan knew Crypto was running on backup power.

The circuit breaker was on the other side of the freon pumps to the left of the body.

The buggeration factor then ensured that at the same time there should be a freon gas leak.

The enclosed area was flooded with argon gas, and Freon began spraying on the plutonium to keep everything to the proper isothermal heat environment.

The resulting drowsiness among the ship's company had produced an over-correction in the proportion of oxygen: a fire broke out in one of the freon refrigeration machines.