How to Use hydrofluorocarbon in a Sentence

hydrofluorocarbon

noun

• Like other nations, the U.S. goal includes methane and some hydrofluorocarbon gases that trap more heat but don’t last as long.
  — Matthew Daly, ajc, 20 Apr. 2021
• Like other nations, the U.S. goal includes methane and some hydrofluorocarbon gases that trap more heat but don't last as long as carbon dioxide.
  — Matthew Daly, Star Tribune, 20 Apr. 2021
• Like other nations, the U.S. goal includes methane and hydrofluorocarbon gases that trap more heat but don’t last as long as carbon dioxide.
  — Seth Borenstein, ajc, 23 Apr. 2021
• In 2016, world leaders struck a deal to phase out the use of a class of chemicals called hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, as coolants in refrigerators and air conditioners.
  — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2018
• Although not well known, its aim is to phase out the use of potent greenhouse gases called hydrofluorocarbons, which are used widely in air conditioning systems.
  — Washington Post, 30 June 2019
• What are hydrofluorocarbons? HFCs, found in aerosols and refrigerants, are a class of potent greenhouse gases that the Kigali amendment aims to reduce in the atmosphere.
  — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 12 June 2018
• The downward spiral is easy enough to see: A/C units contribute to global warming through their use of hydrofluorocarbons, which drive temperatures up, which causes people to buy more A/C units.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 30 Apr. 2019
• The tiff concerns a multilateral effort to phase out hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs.
  — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 12 July 2018
• The long-lasting refrigerants used in air conditioners and freezers called hydrofluorocarbons account for a tiny portion of greenhouse gas emissions.
  — National Geographic, 15 Dec. 2016
• The long-lasting refrigerants used in air conditioners and freezers called hydrofluorocarbons account for a tiny portion of greenhouse gas emissions.
  — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 15 Dec. 2016
• Common in all these machines are hydrofluorocarbons, a type of industrial chemical used for cooling.
  — Chase Purdy, Quartz, 26 July 2019
• As part of Peter’s effort to address climate change, the lawmaker recently introduced a bill that would address so called super pollutants, such as methane and hydrofluorocarbon.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2019
• In October, countries across the globe agreed to collectively phase out hydrofluorocarbons and reduce pollution from airplanes.
  — Emily Atkin, New Republic, 8 May 2017
• But the meeting did produce one headline: an agreement to explore ways to reduce emissions of hydrofluorocarbons, known as HFCs, potent planet-warming chemicals found in refrigerants.
  — Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Mark Landler and Coral Davenport, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2016
• This funding is crucial to help poor countries not only eliminate the last ozone-damaging chemicals but also to leapfrog cheap replacement chemicals called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).
  — National Geographic, 25 Sep. 2017
• In addition to making air conditioners more efficient, there’s an urgent need to replace the hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants that most air conditioners still use, despite global efforts to phase out the chemicals.
  — Emily Underwood, Scientific American, 23 June 2021
• Wheeler signed Wednesday a final rule eliminating the leak repair regulations for hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, which are refrigerant chemicals that warm the atmosphere hundreds of times faster than carbon dioxide.
  — Josh Siegel, Washington Examiner, 27 Feb. 2020
• One concerns ways to control methane leaks from oil-and-gas production; the other concerns plans to decrease hydrofluorocarbon emissions, through both federal standards and participation in an international agreement known as the Kigali Amendment.
  — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 11 July 2019
• Coolants most commonly used in American refrigerators and air-conditioning units are hydrofluorocarbons — greenhouse gases that are often thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide.
  — Jordan Wilkerson, Dallas News, 23 Jan. 2020
• The current generation of refrigerants (hydrofluorocarbons or HFCs) has little effect on the ozone layer but unfortunately contributes heavily to the greenhouse effect.
  — Carine Sebi, Quartz, 27 Aug. 2019
• The legislation would target emissions of hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, refrigerant chemicals that are potent greenhouse gases.
  — Josh Siegel, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024