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HCFC

HCFC is the initialism of hydrochlorofluorocarbon.

Meaning of hydrochlorofluorocarbon

Noun

hydrochlorofluorocarbon (plural hydrochlorofluorocarbons, abbreviation HCFC)

  1. A man-made chemical compound containing hydrogen, chlorine, fluorine, and carbon, mainly used in refrigeration, air conditioning, foam manufacturing, and aerosols.
    • The United States joined Argentina, Brazil, Iceland, Mauritania and Norway on Wednesday in notifying the Ozone Secretariat of the United Nations Environment Program that they want to negotiate an accelerated phaseout of hydrochlorofluorocarbons, or HCFC’s, at an international conference in Montreal...2007 March 15, Keith Bradsher, “Push to Fix Ozone Layer and Slow Global Warming”, in New York Times

Forms of HCFC

pluralHCFCs

Questions about HCFC

What is HCFC the initialism of?
HCFC is the initialism of hydrochlorofluorocarbon.

Words near HCFC in the dictionary

  1. HCEAs
  2. hced
  3. HCEO
  4. HCEOs
  5. HCF
  6. HCFC
  7. HCFCs
  8. HCFs
  9. HCG
  10. HCGs
  11. HCI

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Adapted from Wiktionary: HCFC (page history and authors); hydrochlorofluorocarbon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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