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US
/ˈfɹiɑn/
]
NOUN
- any one or more chlorofluorocarbons (or related compounds) that are used as an aerosol propellant, organic solvent, or refrigerant
How To Use Freon In A Sentence
- I have seen everything you listed except the department store dummy, but would add paint cans, freon cannisters, old TV's, and other stuff that are hazmat if you try to take them to the dump! One Trigger, Or Two?
- The tank adopts Freon compressor and temperature regulator for automatic controlling. It is necessary equipment for aerated water and sparkling wine industry.
- The American boys who for weeks in 2005 in Iraq shared with me their army-issue meals, their menthol cigarettes, their water, and their heartbreak in an armored humvee5 with a faulty air conditioner—once, on my thirtieth birthday, it choked all of us with sour Freon fumes—write me occasionally. Peace Meals
- Earlier over lunch I had been three pages into a biography of the man who invented Freon when the article suddenly made no sense at all - instead of freon, it was now discussing Medieval paint technology.
- This is the older type of freon which isn't in refrigerators made today," Roche said. News from www.rep-am.com
- Rankine-cycle engines have been designed that use organic materials (such as freon) instead of water as the working fluid. Chapter 15
- Called "huffing" or "dusting," it delivers a concentration of gas, such as Freon, that replaces oxygen in the lungs. DesMoinesRegister.com - NEWS
- The idea is to be open to serendipity: every scientist makes mistakes, but only in a culture that encourages the exploration of the unknown do you get Teflon (when a Du Pont scientist working on Freon accidentally polymerized several gases into a white powder). The Houses Of Invention
- They use electric power to compress a refrigerant such as Freon, and when the refrigerant expands, it cools the surrounding air. Mr. Zhang Builds His Dream Town
- Mr. Freon did arrive and pumped in a pound or so but the real problem is that the yardmen have blown about 25 pounds of clippings into the base of the unit.