HALOCARBON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does halocarbon mean? 

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

1. one of various compounds of carbon and any of the halogens

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HALOCARBON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of various compounds of carbon and any of the halogens

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("halocarbon" is a kind of...):

organic compound (any compound of carbon and another element or a radical)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "halocarbon"):

fluorocarbon (a halocarbon in which some hydrogen atoms have been replaced by fluorine; used in refrigerators and aerosols)