1) Cfc 2) Hcfc 3) Hydrochlorofluorocarbon
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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 representative is dichlorodifluoromethane (R-12 or Freon-12). Many CFCs have been widely used as refrige...
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any of several organic compounds composed of carbon, fluorine, chlorine, and hydrogen. Developed during the 1930s and manufactured under the trade ... [8 related articles]
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A family of chemicals composed primarily of carbon, hydrogen, chlorine, and fluorine. Used principally as refrigerants and industrial cleansers. Chlorofluorocarbons have the tendency to destroy the Earth's protective ozone layer. ... (05 Dec 1998) ...
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[
n] - a fluorocarbon with chlorine
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CFC noun 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`
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A class of synthetic chemicals that are odourless, non-toxic, non-flammable, and chemically inert. The first CFC was synthesized in 1892, but no use was found for it until the 1920s. Their stability and apparently harmless properties made CFCs popular as propellants in aerosol cans, as refrigerants in refrigerators and air conditioners, as ...
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(CFC) A family of chemicals composed primarily of carbon, hydrogen, chlorine, and fluorine whose principal applications are as refrigerants and industrial cleansers and whose principal drawback is the tendency to destroy the Earth's protective ozone layer.
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any of several volatile, inert, saturated compounds of carbon, fluorine, chlorine, and hydrogen: used as refrigerants, foam-blowing agents, solvents, and, formerly, as aerosol propellants until scientists became concerned about depletion of the atmospheric ozone layer. Cf.
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