chlorocarbon

[¦klȯr·ō′kär·bən]

(organic chemistry)

A compound of chlorine and carbon only, such as carbon tetrachloride, CCl₄.

References in periodicals archive ?

In test animals Splenda produced swollen livers, (as do all chlorocarbon poisons) and also calcified the kidneys of test animals.

Splenda[R]: deadly relative of DDT: new report documents dangers of sweetener

Task I: Hexachlorobenzene and Hexachlorobutadiene Pollution from Chlorocarbon Processes.

Exposure to hexachlorobenzene during pregnancy and children's social behavior at 4 years of age

Global warming results in the production of several air pollutants like methane, hydro chlorocarbons, carbon dioxide; while fire causes particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, ozone and sulphur oxides.

Climate change, unplanned urbanization and air pollution can fail us in beating NCDs

Total quantity or scope: The University of East Anglia is looking to purchase a versatile field-deployable GC-Time-of-Flight mass spectrometer (GC-ToF-MS) system for ultra-trace environmental air, water and soil analysis of volatile compounds (boiling point range -140 AC to 300 AC) such as halocarbons (including iodocarbons, bromocarbons, chlorocarbons, CFCs), sulphur gases (including dimethyl sulphide and carbonyl sulphide), oxygenated and nitrogenated hydrocarbons (including short-chain alcohols, aldehydes, and ketones, alkyl nitrates, and acetonitrile), persistent organic pollutants, primary, secondary and tertiary amines.

Versatile field-deployable GC-Time-of-Flight mass spectrometer (GC-ToF-MS) system

They also noted a potential market for carbon dioxide in dry cleaning, where it could replace harmful chlorocarbons, and as a refrigerant to replace materials more than 1,000 times as potent as greenhouse gases.

Now, Green Carbon Centre that could recycle CO2 to lower eco footprint

Hydrocarbons and chlorocarbons may also be partially oxidized in this zone, resulting in emissions including oxy-PAHs and oxychloro-PAHs (Rubey WA et al.

Origin and health impacts of emissions of toxic by-products and fine particles from combustion and thermal treatment of hazardous wastes and materials