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CFCS

"CFCS" is a plural of: cfc.


Specialty Definition: CFCS

DomainDefinition

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.

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Crosswords: CFCS

Specialty definitions using "CFCS": chlorofluorocarbonsenhanced greenhouse effectFLUOROCARBON GASES, Fugitive emissionsGREENHOUSE GASEShydrochlorofluorocarbon, HydrochlorofluorocarbonsMontreal Protocol. (references)

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Commercial Usage: CFCS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Between Earth and Sky: How Cfcs Changed Our World and Endangered the Ozone Layer (reference)

  • Refrigerant Management: The Recovery, Recycling, and Reclaiming of Cfcs (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: CFCS

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: CFCS

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)84.73%29416,951
Noun (plural)15.27%5346,657
                    Total100.00%347N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CFCS

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cfcs

61

cfcs ozone

5

cfcs depletion ozone

2

cfcs chlorofluorocarbon

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: CFCS

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: CFCS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 46 43 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    ..-.    -.-.    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01000110 01000011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#70 &#67 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0046 0043 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37403753

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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