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"CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS" is a plural of: chlorofluorocarbon. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A series of hydrocarbons containing both chlorine and fluorine. These have been used as refrigerants, blowing agents, cleaning fluids, solvents, and as fire extinguishing agents. They have been shown to cause stratospheric ozone depletion and have been banned for many uses. (references) |
Math | A family of inert, nontoxic, and easily liquefied chemicals used in refrigeration, air conditioning, packaging, and insulation, or as solvents or aerosol propellants. Because they are not destroyed in the lower atmosphere, they drift into the upper atmosphere, where, given suitable conditions, their chlorine components destroy ozone. (references) |
Science | Manmade chemicals containing chlorine, fluorine, and carbon. CFCs are used for industrial purposes and in the home for refrigeration, air conditioning, aerosols, foam blowing, and chemical solvents. CFCs alter the greenhouse effect by absorbing additional solar radiation. CFCs also destroy the protective ozone layer in the atmosphere that shields the Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation. (references) |
Weather | Organic compounds made up of atoms of carbon, chlorine, and fluorine. An example is CFC-12 (CCl2F2, used as a refrigerant in refrigerators and air conditioners and as a foam blowing agent. Gaseous CFCs can deplete the ozone layer when they slowly rise into the stratosphere, are broken down by strong ultraviolet radiation, release chlorine atoms, and then react with ozone molecules. See ozone depleting substance, fluorocarbons. (references) |
| A family of inert nontoxic and easily liquified chemicals used in refrigeration, air conditioning, packaging, and insulation or as solvents or aerosol propellants. Because they are not destroyed in the lower atmosphere, they drift into the upper atmosphere where their chlorine components destroy ozone. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: CHLOROFLUOROCARBONSSynonym: CFCs (Chemicals). (additional references) |
Crosswords: CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS |
| Specialty definitions using "CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS": CFCs ♦ fluorocarbons, Freon ♦ greenhouse gas, greenhouse gases ♦ Hydrochlorofluorocarbons ♦ Ozone depleting substance, Ozone Depletion ♦ radiatively active gases. (references) |
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Health | There is also serious concern about depletion of stratospheric ozone by manmade chlorofluorocarbons (CFC). These extraordinarily inert chemicals are used in numerous commercial products, including aerosols and refrigerants. (references) | |
Trade | Singapore | Quantitative restrictions exist for certain textiles and garments to Canada, EU countries and the U.S. Items such as rubber, timber, granite, satellite dishes and receivers, and chlorofluorocarbons are subject to export control and licensing. (references) |
Mauritius | Imports of the following items are prohibited: ball valve bottles, caps for toy guns, recapped tires, white phosphorous matches, certain firecrackers, kerosene stoves, water scooters, ivory and tortoise shell, underwater fishing guns, candy in the form of cigarettes, toy crash helmets, cigarette papers, used motor vehicle spare parts, electric water heaters with bare elements, portable electric lamps, teething rings, rolling machines (other than industrial-type rolling machines) for cigarette manufacturing, blue asbestos and its products, and items containing chlorofluorocarbons (CFC). A detailed list is available from the Embassy. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 98.92% of the time. "CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS" is used about 93 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 (plural) | 98.92% | 92 | 34,282 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.08% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 93 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | chlorfluorcarboner. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | chloorfluorkoolwaterstoffen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | chlorofluorocarbones. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | chlorfluorkohlenstoffe, Fluorkohlenwasserstoffe (fluorinated hydrocarbon, fluorine-carbon-hydrogens, fluorocarbon, fluorohydrocarbon, hydrofluorocarbon), Fluorchlorkohlenwasserstoffe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | clorofluorocarburi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orofluorocarbonschlay clorofluorocarbonos, clorofluorcarbonos. (various references) clorofluorocarbonos. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chloroflorocarbons, chloroflourocarbon, chloroflourocarbons, chlorofluococarbons, chlorofluorcarbons, Chloro-fluoro-carbons, chloroflurocarbon, chloroflurocarbons, clorofluorocarbons. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS" (pronounced klôrōflô"rōkÄ"rbÄnz) |
| 3 | -Ä n z | citron, electrons, interferons, negatrons, neurons, tampons, zircons. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-f-h-l-l-n-o-o-o-o-o-r-r-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: chlorofluorocarbon. | |
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