FLUOROCARBON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fluorocarbon mean? 

• FLUOROCARBON (noun)
  The noun FLUOROCARBON has 1 sense:

1. a halocarbon in which some hydrogen atoms have been replaced by fluorine; used in refrigerators and aerosols

  Familiarity information: FLUOROCARBON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLUOROCARBON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A halocarbon in which some hydrogen atoms have been replaced by fluorine; used in refrigerators and aerosols

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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))

 Context examples 

A sterile non-pyrogenic suspension of microspheres of human serum albumin with the stable, high-molecular-weight fluorocarbon gas perflutren, used as a contrast enhancement agent for ultrasound procedures.

(Perflutren Protein-Type A Microspheres, NCI Thesaurus)

An injectable suspension of liposome-encapsuled microspheres containing the fluorocarbon gas perflutren for contrast enhancement in ultrasound procedures.

(Perflutren Lipid Microspheres, NCI Thesaurus)