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"CFCS" is a plural of: cfc. |
| Domain | Definition |
Agriculture | Chlorofluorocarbons. (references) |
Energy | Afamily of artificially produced chemicals receiving much attention for their role instratospheric ozone depletion. On a per molecule basis, these chemicals are severalthousand times more effective as greenhouse gases than carbon dioxide. Since theywere introduced in the mid-1930s, CFCs have been used as refrigerants, solvents andin the production of foam material. The 1987 Montreal protocol on CFCs seeks toreduce their production by one-half by the year 1998. (CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS or CHLORINATED FLUOROCARBONS). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CFCS |
| Specialty definitions using "CFCS": chlorofluorocarbons ♦ enhanced greenhouse effect ♦ FLUOROCARBON GASES, Fugitive emissions ♦ GREENHOUSE GASES ♦ hydrochlorofluorocarbon, Hydrochlorofluorocarbons ♦ Montreal Protocol. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | CFCs are rendered harmless by combustion. (references) | |
It is the responsibility of the municipalities to ensure that they are taken to plants where the CFCs can be removed. (references) | ||
These provide guidance on alternatives for CFCs, Halons and ozone depleting solvents in refrigeration and air conditioning, fire fighting equipment, and routine chemical processes like cleaning and degreasing. (references) | ||
Trade | Thailand | Imports of used motorcycles and parts, household refrigerators using CFCs, and gaming machines are prohibited . (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CFCS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 84.73% of the time. "CFCS" is used about 347 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 84.73% | 294 | 16,951 |
| Noun (plural) | 15.27% | 53 | 46,657 |
| Total | 100.00% | 347 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cfcs | 61 |
cfcs ozone | 5 |
cfcs depletion ozone | 2 |
cfcs chlorofluorocarbon | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-f-s" | |
+3 letters: floccus. | |
+4 letters: catfaces, confects, fascicle, feluccas, floccose, specific. | |
+5 letters: calcifies, calctufas, calctuffs, checkoffs, cocklofts, cocksfoot, coeffects, cofactors, conflicts, crucifers, crucifies, fascicled, fascicles, fascicule, fasciculi, fascistic, floccules, flocculus, focaccias, locofocos, sacrifice, specifics. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 46 43 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. ..-. -.-. ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01000110 01000011 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C F C S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0046 0043 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37403753 |
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