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"HALONS" is a plural of: halon. |
"HALONS" is a common misspelling or typo for: halos. |
| Domain | Definition |
Weather | Compounds, also known as bromofluorocarbons, that contain bromine, fluorine, and carbon. They are generally used as fire extinguishing agents and cause ozone depletion. Bromine is many times more effective at destroying stratospheric ozone than chlorine. See ozone depleting substance. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
There is concern that they are being broken down in the atmosphere to bromine, which reacts with ozone, leading to depletion of the ozone layer, along with other chlorofluorocarbons such as freon. However, these fears are debatable as the kinds of fires that require halon extinguishers to be put out will typically cause more damage to the ozone layer than the halon itself.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Halon."
Crosswords: HALONS |
| Specialty definitions using "HALONS": Ozone depleting substance, Ozone Depletion. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | 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) | |
The most common of these are the CFCs, Halons, HBFCs, HCFCs and individual products such as carbon tetrachloride and 1,1,1 tri-chloroethane, which have been used for refrigeration, foam blowing, fire fighting, aerosol sprays, and degreasing. (references) | ||
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| "HALONS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "HALONS" is used about 50 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) | 100% | 50 | 48,117 |
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 |
halons | 6 |
des halons retraitement | 3 |
démantèlement halons | 2 |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "HALONS": diencephalons, metencephalons, myelencephalons, rhinencephalons, telencephalons. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-l-n-o-s" | |
-1 letter: halos, loans, salon, shoal, solan. | |
-2 letters: also, halo, hols, hons, lash, loan, naos, nosh, sola. | |
-3 letters: als, ash, hao, has, hon, las, nah, noh, nos, ohs, ons, sal, sha, sol, son. | |
-4 letters: ah, al, an, as, ha, ho, la, lo, na, no, oh, on, os, sh, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-l-n-o-s" | |
+1 letter: enhalos, lochans. | |
+2 letters: alphorns, althorns, anethols, chalones, enhaloes, ethanols, halcyons, halogens, haplonts, hobnails, hollands, manholes, naphtols, shalloon, shoaling, shogunal, siphonal. | |
+3 letters: anetholes, anopheles, aphelions, biathlons, chaldrons, chlordans, downhauls, eulachons, falchions, hailstone, halations, halazones, halftones, handholds, handlooms, homelands, hooligans, horntails, hyalogens, lanthorns, loathings, loathness, longhairs, longhands, longheads, methanols, naphthols, onslaught, oolachans, schoolman, shalloons, solonchak, southland, unhallows. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 41 4C 4F 4E 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .- .-.. --- -. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01000001 01001100 01001111 01001110 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H A L O N S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0041 004C 004F 004E 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)423546494853 |
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