chlorofluorocarbon

Other forms of chlorofluorocarbon

plural

chlorofluorocarbons·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about chlorofluorocarbon

What does chlorofluorocarbon mean?

chlorofluorocarbon means "a fluorocarbon with chlorine; formerly used as a refrigerant and as a propellant in aerosol cans".

How many syllables are in chlorofluorocarbon?

chlorofluorocarbon has 6 syllables: chlo-ro-fluo-ro-car-bon. The stress falls on "car". In IPA it is /klɔɹoʊˌflɔɹoʊˈkɑɹbɑn/.

What is another word for chlorofluorocarbon?

Close synonyms include CFC. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chlorofluorocarbon a common word?

chlorofluorocarbon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.