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Meanings of chlorofluorocarbons in English
Hydrocarbon derivative that contains only carbon, chlorine and fluorine.
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Examples for "cfc"
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The pods in the back of the fridges had been removed causing dangerous cfc gasses to leak into the atmosphere.
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IFN-gamma production in T cells measured by CFC was used as readout.
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However, Ocado and Kroger are still discussing how future CFCs will be funded.
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Who could possibly be leaking information about CFC's investigation to journalists?
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HFCs are much less harmful than CFCs for the ozone layer.
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They're dragging another horse from the canal, its chestnut coat sheened bubble-gum-pink from the freon.
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Investigators believe the twenty died when they inhaled freon gas, accidentally released from the fire extinguishing systems.
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I shared the fish with Natasha, a mute girl who runs one of the cranes, hauling carcasses from the freon pools.
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Ti-gan's pack had once managed to trade for some precious freon produced across the waters-that-cannot-be-drunk, so steam-powered air conditioning cooled the upper tiers.
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His blood ran like freon through his veins as he raised his head to see fireflashes dancing on chintz curtains two stories up.
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But it also included 2.2m tonnes of harmful lead compounds, as well as mercury, cadmium and chromium, and 4,400 tonnes of ozone-harming chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) gases.
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With an instinct for the regrettable that was almost uncanny, he invented chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs.
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Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone.
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The Company provides services to protect the ozone layer from the effects of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).
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CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) are banned because of the damage they do to the Earth's upper atmosphere.
Usage of chlorofluorocarbons in English
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With an instinct for the regrettable that was almost uncanny, he invented chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs.
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Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone.
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The Company provides services to protect the ozone layer from the effects of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).
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CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) are banned because of the damage they do to the Earth's upper atmosphere.
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That's when we started using Freon, the trademark name for chlorofluorocarbons, the man-made chlorine compounds in refrigeration.
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In short, chlorofluorocarbons may ultimately prove to be just about the worst invention of the twentieth century.
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With decisive action, he argues, humans eliminated acid rain and ozone-killing chlorofluorocarbons, and we can do it again.
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She talks about chlorofluorocarbons and the ozone layer, scratching her graying hair so it sticks up at the sides.
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The chlorofluorocarbons used in air conditioning have in recent years been blamed for the growing hole in the Earth's ozone layer.
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Rowland & Dr. Mario Molina discovered that chlorofluorocarbons in aerosol sprays initiated a chlorine chain reaction in the atmosphere, leading to ozone breakdown.
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The 1987 Montreal Protocol succeeded in phasing out the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), widely used at that time in refrigeration and aerosols.
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HFCs were introduced as substitutes for chlorofluorocarbons, which were damaging the ozone layer that protects the planet from ultraviolet rays that cause skin cancer.
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Two years later, in 1987, an international agreement called the Montreal Protocol banned many chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs, starting in 1989.
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The protocol helped restore the ozone layer, which shields life from the sun's harmful rays, by ending the production of chemicals such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).
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Measurements made by an ER-2 flying out of Chile in 1987 helped confirm that chlorofluorocarbons were causing a hole in the ozone layer.
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Between 6,000 and 20,000 tonnes of CFCs, or chlorofluorocarbons, worth up to $144 million, are smuggled into Europe each year, according to official estimates.
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