Usually means: Man-made, ozone-depleting chemical compounds.
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  1. chlorofluorocarbon: Merriam-Webster
  2. chlorofluorocarbon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chlorofluorocarbon: Collins English Dictionary
  4. chlorofluorocarbon: Vocabulary.com
  5. chlorofluorocarbon: Wordnik
  6. chlorofluorocarbon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. chlorofluorocarbon: Wiktionary
  8. chlorofluorocarbon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. chlorofluorocarbon: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. chlorofluorocarbon: Dictionary.com
  11. Chlorofluorocarbon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. chlorofluorocarbon: Rhymezone
  13. chlorofluorocarbon: FreeDictionary.org
  14. chlorofluorocarbon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. chlorofluorocarbon: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. chlorofluorocarbon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. chlorofluorocarbon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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  1. Glossary of chlorine and other chemical related terms (No longer online)

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noun:  (organic chemistry) Any of a class of organic compounds in which the hydrogen atoms of a hydrocarbon are replaced with those of chlorine and fluorine; formerly used as refrigerants and aerosol can propellants but withdrawn due to causing damage to the ozone layer.

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