any substance used to provide cooling (as in a refrigerator)
<noun.substance> [ adj ]
causing cooling or freezing
<adj.all> a refrigerant substance such as ice or solid carbon dioxide
Refrigerant \Re*frig"er*ant\, n. That which makes to be cool or cold; specifically, a medicine or an application for allaying fever, or the symptoms of fever; -- used also figuratively. --Holland. ``A refrigerant to passion.'' --Blair.
Refrigerant \Re*frig"er*ant\ (r?*fr?j"?r-ant), a. [L. refrigerans, p. pr. of refrigerare: cf. F. r['e]frig['e]rant. See {Refrigerate}.] Cooling; allaying heat or fever. --Bacon.
Hydrocarbons, however, don't mix well with the new refrigerant substitute, called HFC-134a.
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.
Nations that ratified the treaty to reduce emissions of chlorofluorocarbons _ the refrigerant gases blamed for depletion of Earth's ozone layer _ should reconvene to move up their 1994 deadline for cutting such emissions in half.
It will be filled again with a refrigerant, probably on Monday.
Until recently, nearly all domestic fridges used CFC as the refrigerant and to blow the insulating foam. Yeo's German-made fridge, Greenfreeze, is promoted by Greenpeace.
Essex late last year decided to sell some assets and business lines to focus on businesses in specialty and industrial chemicals, refrigerant gases and generic drugs.
Du Pont Co. said it plans to build the first commercial production plant for an environmentally safe substitute for Freon, the world's most widely used refrigerant.
The freezing treatment is accomplished by touching the eye briefly with a cold probe, an instrument with a ballpoint-like tip that is cooled by a refrigerant to about minus 80 degrees.