CFC/CHLOROFLUOROCARBON

Meaning of CFC/CHLOROFLUOROCARBON in English

a refrigerant chemical that most countries have banned or will ban in the near future. Thought to cause global warming.

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CFC — abbreviation chlorofluorocarbon
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
CFC — ˌsē(ˌ)efˈsē abbreviation or noun ( -s ) chlorofluorocarbon herein
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CHLOROFLUOROCARBON — (>CFC) any of several organic compounds composed of carbon, fluorine, chlorine, and hydrogen. CFCs are manufactured under the trade name …
Britannica English vocabulary
CFC — [noun] [C] - abbreviation for chlorofluorocarbon (= a type of chemical which is used for cooling air, as a cleaning …
Cambridge English vocab
CHLOROFLUOROCARBON — n. Any of several organic compounds containing carbon , fluorine , chlorine , and hydrogen . A number of different …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
CFC — abbreviation (Environment) Short for chlorofluorocarbon, any of a number of chemical compounds released into the atmosphere through the use of …
Английский разговорный словарь - Новые слова
CHLOROFLUOROCARBON — noun Date: 1949 any of several simple gaseous compounds that contain carbon, chlorine, fluorine, and sometimes hydrogen, that are used …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
CHLOROFLUOROCARBON — ¦klōrə, ¦klȯr-ˌ noun Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary chlor- + fluorocarbon : any of several simple gaseous compounds that contain carbon, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CHLOROFLUOROCARBON — /klawr'oh floor'oh kahr"beuhn, -flawr'-; klohr'oh floor'oh kahr"beuhn, -flohr'-/ , n. any of several volatile, inert, saturated compounds of carbon, fluorine, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
CHLOROFLUOROCARBON — n. type of greenhouse gas, one of the gases thought to be responsible for the hole in the ozone layer, …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
CFC — type of greenhouse gas, one of the gases thought to be responsible for the hole in the ozone layer (Ecology)
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
CHLOROFLUOROCARBON — noun Date: 1949 : any of several simple gaseous compounds that contain carbon, chlorine, fluorine, and sometimes hydrogen, that are …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
CFC — chlorofluorocarbon
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
CHLOROFLUOROCARBON — [ ˌklɔ:rə(ʊ)ˌflʊərə(ʊ)'kα:b(ə)n , -ˌflɔ:- ] ■ noun see CFC .
Concise Oxford English vocab
CFC — ■ abbreviation Chemistry chlorofluorocarbon, any of a class of synthetic compounds of carbon, hydrogen, chlorine, and fluorine formerly used as …
Concise Oxford English vocab
CHLOROFLUOROCARBON — [chlo.ro.fluo.ro.car.bon] n (1949): any of several simple gaseous compounds that contain carbon, chlorine, fluorine, and sometimes hydrogen, that are used …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
CFC — [CFC] abbreviation chlorofluorocarbon
Merriam-Webster English vocab
CHLOROFLUOROCARBON — chlorofluorocarbon BrE AmE ˌklɔːr ə ʊ ˌflʊər ə ʊ ˈkɑːb ə n -ˌflɔːr ə ʊ -; -ˌfluː ə rəʊ- AmE …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
CHLOROFLUOROCARBON — / ˌklɔːrəʊˈflʊərəʊkɑːbən; NAmE ˌklɔːroʊˈflʊroʊkɑːrbən/ noun ( chemistry ) a CFC ; a compound containing carbon fluorine and chlorine that is …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CFC — / ˌsiː ef ˈsiː; NAmE / noun [ C , U ] a type of gas used especially in aerosols …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CHLOROFLUOROCARBON — chlo ‧ ro ‧ fluo ‧ ro ‧ car ‧ bon /ˌklɔːrəʊflʊərəʊˈkɑːbən $ -roʊflʊroʊˈkɑːr-/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
CFC — CFC /ˌsiː ef ˈsiː/ BrE AmE noun [countable] (chlorofluorocarbon) a gas used in ↑ fridge s and ↑ aerosol cans, …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
CFC — abbr. Chem. chloro-fluorocarbon, any of various usu. gaseous compounds of carbon, hydrogen, chlorine, and fluorine, used in refrigerants, aerosol propellants, …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
CFC — abbr. Chem. chloro-fluorocarbon, any of various usu. gaseous compounds of carbon, hydrogen, chlorine, and fluorine, used in refrigerants, aerosol propellants, …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
CFC — abbr. Chem. chloro-fluorocarbon, any of various usu. gaseous compounds of carbon, hydrogen, chlorine, and fluorine, used in refrigerants, aerosol propellants, …
Oxford English vocab
CHLOROFLUOROCARBON — ( chlorofluorocarbons) Chlorofluorocarbons are the same as CFCs . N-COUNT
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CFC — ( CFCs) CFCs are gases that are used in things such as aerosols and refrigerators and can cause damage to …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CHLOROFLUOROCARBON — (~s) Chlorofluorocarbons are the same as CFCs . N-COUNT
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
CFC — (~s) ~s are gases that are used in things such as aerosols and refrigerators and can cause damage to the …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
CHLOROFLUOROCARBON — noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It is free of chlorofluorocarbon gases which have been used to cool most fridges for …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
CFC — Chlorofluorocarbons
Environmental Engineering English vocabulary
.CFC — Cold Fusion File
Computer Abbreviations English vocabulary
CHLOROFLUOROCARBON — (Environment) see CFC
Английский разговорный словарь - Новые слова
CFC — A chlorinated fluorocarbon that can cause ozone layer depletion. The use of CFCs is restricted by the Environmental Protection Agency. …
Electronics Terminology English vocabulary
CHLOROFLUOROCARBON — Галогеноалканы
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
CFC — Галогеноалканы
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
CFC — сокр. от chlorofluorocarbon фреон to ban CFC use — запрещать использование фреона CFCs damage the ozone layer. — Фреоны наносят …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
CFC — сокр. от chlorofluorocarbon фреон to ban CFC use — запрещать использование фреона CFCs damage the ozone layer. — Фреоны наносят ущерб озоновому слою. CFC …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
CFC — Cold Fusion File
Russian-English Edic
CHLOROFLUOROCARBON — Галогеноалканы
Британский Англо-Русский словарь
CFC — Галогеноалканы
Британский Англо-Русский словарь
CFC — 1. Command File Compiler компилятор командных файлов. Автономный комплект инструментальных средств для подготовки командных файлов и файлов в объектном коде …
Англо-Русский словарь терминов GSM
CFC — ChloroFluoroCarbon
U.F.O. Related Terminology and Acronyms
CHLOROFLUOROCARBON (CFC) — Any of several organic compounds containing carbon , fluorine , chlorine , and hydrogen . A number of different CFCs …
Английский словарь Британика
CHLOROFLUOROMETHANE — noun Date: 1965 a chlorofluorocarbon derived from methane
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
TOXICOLOGY — Study of poison s and their effects, particularly on living systems. It overlaps with biochemistry , histology , pharmacology , …
Английский словарь Британика
CHLOROFLUOROMETHANE — ¦klōrə¦flu̇(ə)(ˌ)rō, ¦klȯr-, -¦flōr(ˌ)ō, ¦flȯ(ˌ)rōˌ noun Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary chlor- + fluor- + methane : a chlorofluorocarbon derived from methane
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FREON — /free"on/ , Trademark. a brand name for any of a class of liquid or gaseous fluorocarbon or chlorofluorocarbon products, used …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FLUOROCARBON — /floor'oh kahr'beuhn, flawr"-, flohr"-/ , n. Chem. any of a class of compounds produced by substituting fluorine for hydrogen in …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
CHLOROFLUOROMETHANE — /klawr'oh floor'oh meth"ayn, -flawr'-; klohr'oh floor'oh meth"ayn, -flohr'-/ , n. any of a series of gaseous or volatile methanes substituted …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FLUOROCARBON — noun Date: 1937 : any of various chemically inert compounds containing carbon and fluorine used chiefly as lubricants, refrigerants, nonstick …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
CHLOROFLUOROMETHANE — -ˈmē- noun Date: 1965 : a chlorofluorocarbon derived from methane
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
ROWLAND, F. SHERWOOD — born June 28, 1927, Delaware, Ohio, U.S. in full Frank Sherwood Rowland American chemist who shared the 1995 Nobel Prize …
Britannica English vocabulary
MOLINA, MARIO — born March 19, 1943, Mexico City, Mex. Mario Molina, 1995. in full Mario Jos Molina Mexican-born American chemist who was …
Britannica English vocabulary
OZONE LAYER DEPLETION — The destruction of Ozone molecules in the Ozone Layer of the Stratosphere by chemical reactions with materials released by human …
Environmental Engineering English vocabulary

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