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FLUOROCARBON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A halocarbon in which some hydrogen atoms have been replaced by fluorine; used in refrigerators and aerosols
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("fluorocarbon" is a kind of...):
halocarbon (one of various compounds of carbon and any of the halogens)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fluorocarbon"):
CFC; chlorofluorocarbon (a fluorocarbon with chlorine; formerly used as a refrigerant and as a propellant in aerosol cans)
HFC; hydrofluorocarbon (a fluorocarbon emitted as a by-product of industrial manufacturing)
perfluorocarbon; PFC (a powerful greenhouse gas emitted during the production of aluminum)
tetrafluoroethylene (a flammable gaseous fluorocarbon used in making plastics (polytetrafluoroethylene resins))
