perfluorocarbon

NOUN
  1. a powerful greenhouse gas emitted during the production of aluminum
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How To Use perfluorocarbon In A Sentence

  • It involves organisms breathing an oxygen-rich liquid such as perfluorocarbon. Times, Sunday Times
  • Oxygen bonds chemically to the hemoglobin, whereas it dissolves only into the perfluorocarbon emulsions.
  • Fluorinated gases (or High Global Warming Potential gases): This group of gases, which includes hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride, are “synthetic, powerful greenhouse gases that are emitted from a variety of industrial processes.” Prevention of Global Warming: Understanding The Main Causes
  • The FBS (fluorous biphase system) makes homogeneous catalysis and heterogeneous separation possible and easy to separate the catalysts dissolved in PFC (perfluorocarbons).
  • Whilst nitrogen trifluoride is certainly worthy of inclusion under the Kyoto protocol, along with perfluorocarbons and the like, especially as worldwide consumption of the gas grows, it is however nothing worth making a huge irrational fuss in the media about. Archive 2008-07-01
  • This process also breaks off bits of the fluorine from the cryolite, which escapes the smelter in the form of perfluorocarbons PFCs—these are the most noxious of greenhouse gases, trapping thousands of times more heat than carbon dioxide. THE STORY OF STUFF
  • And we found in my blood trace levels of PCBs [Polychlorinated biphenyls - a man-made organic chemical], DDT [dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane - a synthetic pesticide], PFCs [Perfluorocarbons - linked to infertility] and high levels of flame retardant. Plastic Trash in Oceans Enters Marine Food Chain
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