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HFC

HFC is the initialism of hydrofluorocarbon.

HFC is the initialism of hydrogen fuel cell.

Meaning of hydrofluorocarbon

Noun

hydrofluorocarbon (plural hydrofluorocarbons)

  1. A haloalkane composed entirely of carbon, hydrogen, and fluorine.
    • New cars sold in much of the world since this agreement have used R134a refrigerant in their climate-control systems. It is a hydrofluorocarbon, which contains no chlorine. In the years since the ban of refrigerants containing chlorine, the ozone hole has receded.2007 February 12, Kevin Cameron, “Greenhouse Villain Could Be a White Knight After All”, in The New York Times
    Synonyms:
    HFC

Proper noun

HFC

  1. The station code of Heng Fa Chuen in Hong Kong.

Forms of HFC

pluralHFCs

Questions about HFC

What does HFC mean?
HFC means the station code of Heng Fa Chuen in Hong Kong.
What is HFC the initialism of?
HFC is the initialism of hydrofluorocarbon.
What part of speech is HFC?
HFC is a proper noun.

Words near HFC in the dictionary

  1. hezrou
  2. hezrous
  3. hf
  4. HFA
  5. HFAs
  6. HFC
  7. HFCS
  8. HFD
  9. HFDs
  10. HFE
  11. HFEA

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: HFC (page history and authors); hydrofluorocarbon (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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