fluorocarbon

1. 1.

   a halocarbon in which some hydrogen atoms have been replaced by fluorine; used in refrigerators and aerosols

   Broaderhalocarbon

   Narrowerchlorofluorocarbonhydrofluorocarbonperfluorocarbontetrafluoroethylene

   chemistry

Other forms of fluorocarbon

plural

fluorocarbons·

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 fluorocarbon

What does fluorocarbon mean?

fluorocarbon means "a halocarbon in which some hydrogen atoms have been replaced by fluorine; used in refrigerators and aerosols".

How many syllables are in fluorocarbon?

fluorocarbon has 4 syllables: fluor-o-car-bon. The stress falls on "car". In IPA it is /ˌflʊɹoʊˈkɑɹbən/.

Is fluorocarbon a common word?

fluorocarbon 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.

What rhymes with fluorocarbon?

2 words rhyme with fluorocarbon. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.