Fluorocarbons

Fluorocarbons

Carbon-fluorine compounds that often contain other elements such as hydrogen, chlorine, or bromine. Common fluorocarbons include chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), and perfluorocarbons (PFCs).

This is auto-generated content. You can help to improve it.

0 0

Improve it

Add an image

Part of Speech: noun
Synonym(s):
Blossary:
Industry/Domain: Natural environment
Category: Climate change
Government Agency: U.S. EPA
Product:
Acronym-Abbreviation:

Collect to Blossary

Other Languages:

Related terms

fluorocarbon

Chemistry; Organic chemistry

A hydrocarbon in which part or all hydrogen atoms have been replaced by fluorine atoms, including chlorinated and brominated fluorocarbons. Also known as fluorohydrocarbon.

fluorocarbon

Metals; Aluminum

A stable carbon compound in which hydrogen from a hydrocarbon has been replaced by fluorine. Coatings containing the fluorocarbon PVF2, among the most stable known, are applied by ...

fluorocarbon

Science; General science

Any of the organic compounds in which all of the hydrogen atoms attached to a carbon atom have been replaced by fluorine; also referred to as a perfluorocarbon. Fluorocarbons are ...

fluorocarbon

Environment; Environment statistics

Gas used as a propellant in aerosols. It contributes to the destruction of the ozone layer in the stratosphere, thereby allowing harmful forms of solar radiation to reach the ...

fluorocarbons

Medical; Health care; Medicine

Liquid perfluorinated carbon compounds which may or may not contain a hetero atom such as nitrogen, oxygen or sulfur, but do not contain another halogen or hydrogen atom. This ...

fluorocarbons

Packaging; General packaging

Organic compounds in which fluorine atoms are bonded to carbon atoms. Example, Teflon* - Trade Mark Reg. DuPont.

Annex I countries

Natural environment; Climate change

The industrialised countries (and countries in transition to a market economy) which took on obligations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. Their ...

Annex II

Natural environment; Climate change

Countries which have a special obligation under the Kyoto Protocol to provide financial resources and transfer technology to developing countries. This group is a sub-section of ...

Aosis

Natural environment; Climate change

The Alliance of Small Island States comprises 42 island and coastal states mostly in the Pacific and Caribbean. Members of Aosis are some of the countries likely to be hit hardest ...

The Fourth Assessment Report (AR4)

Natural environment; Climate change

The Fourth Assessment Report produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published in 2007. The report assessed and summarised the climate change situation ...

Bali action plan

Natural environment; Climate change

A plan drawn up at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, in December 2007, forming part of the Bali roadmap. The action plan established a working group to define a long-term ...

Bali roadmap

Natural environment; Climate change

A plan drawn up at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, in December 2007, to pave the way for an agreement at Copenhagen in 2009 on further efforts to reduce greenhouse gas ...