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CFC

n. 中央发射控制(全套设备控制台)

cfc

[ noun ]
a fluorocarbon with chlorine; formerly used as a refrigerant and as a propellant in aerosol cans
<noun.substance>
the chlorine in CFCs causes depletion of atmospheric ozone

Halons are used in firefighting equipment. Officials will be recommending a timetable for the phase-out of CFC substitutes, such as hydrochlorofluorocarbons, if possible in time for the November ministerial meeting.
Hawaii's governor is expected to sign a bill that would ban the sale of CFC cartridges for recharging car air conditioners.
He said climatic factors, and not a lessening of the CFC problem, were responsible.
Refrigeration and air conditioning account for almost half of CFC use.
A human pollutant _ chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs _ is destroying the ozone. Governments are trying to reduce CFC releases, but the question for the 1990s is whether it is too little too late.
"CFC donors have sent out a message that has been picked up by workplace giving campaign decision makers across the country, in both the public and private sectors," said Don Sodo, who champions broader workplace fund drives.
The company said it sells $600 million worth of CFC products annually, about 2 percent of its sales revenue.
This would permit use of less powerful CFC compounds to grow throughout the next century while still holding the chlorine increase to less than 1 part per billion by 2100.
'We certainly regard our investment in CFC substitutes as being at risk.
The domestic electronics industry accounts for 12% of the CFC usage in the U.S., according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Unlike the very simple chlorofluorocarbon tax levied on Du Pont and the small number of CFC producers, a carbon tax would by its nature be broad-based and require a complex allocation of responsibilities.
For high-technology companies, kicking the CFC habit isn't easy.
Major producing nations agreed last year to cut CFC production by 50 percent in 1998, but the Environmental Protection Agency said Monday its latest analyses show the compounds should be dropped around the world.
Kevin Fay, executive director of the Alliance for Responsible CFC Policy, a coalition of users and producers of CFCs, said that most output of CFCs for new products could be ended by 1996.
The spokesman doesn't estimate when GE's technology will be ready, but he says that meanwhile GE will offset the released refrigerant by "somehow" cutting its future use of CFC coolant by that amount.
Participants from China, a major CFC consumer, said it would recommend that Beijing sign the treaty.
Another was dressed in a white zippered suit on which had been written the names of various chemicals and elements such as toluene, CFC, or chlorofluorocarbons, and mercury.
"We're hearing a lot about new inventions coming down the pike," says Kevin Fay of the Alliance for Responsible CFC Policy. "We're not saying there aren't technological solutions out there to be found.
The United States and the European Community have proposed going further, calling for a ban on CFC production by the year 2000.
The largest producer is Du Pont Co., which markets CFC products under the brand name Freon.
CFC compounds also contribute to the "greenhouse" effect that is warming the planet.
If CFC use continued increasing at 2.5 percent per year, EPA said, 20 percent of the ozone barrier could be gone in the next century.
But to deal with today's reality, and today's reality is that all European countries can debate within CFC which is desirable, and is not at all in contradiction with any new behavior or any new evolutions in NATO.
An international treaty calls for a 50 percent reduction in CFC production by 1998, and under EPA's expectations, the CFC shortages will enable producers to raise prices with no increase in production costs.
An international treaty calls for a 50 percent reduction in CFC production by 1998, and under EPA's expectations, the CFC shortages will enable producers to raise prices with no increase in production costs.
The U.S. accounts for about one-third of world CFC production.
"This (CFC problem) has caused a whole new review of the way we do business," says A.D. Fitzgerald, director of environmental affairs at Northern Telecom, a Canadian-based manufacturer of telephone equipment.
The telecommunications giant's policy is more aggressive than internationally mandated guidelines, which require a 50% cut in 1986 CFC usage levels by 1998.
General Motors Corp., for example, announced recently that its 10,000 dealers will install equipment to capture and purify CFC coolants from car air conditioners under repair, and other auto makers are taking similar steps.
But the CFC alternatives won't be cheap.

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