digplanet beta 1: Athena
Share digplanet:

Agriculture

Applied sciences

Arts

Belief

Business

Chronology

Culture

Education

Environment

Geography

Health

History

Humanities

Language

Law

Life

Mathematics

Nature

People

Politics

Science

Society

Technology

  1. redirect Chlorofluorocarbon

Original courtesy of Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorofluorocarbons — Please support Wikipedia.
A portion of the proceeds from advertising on Digplanet goes to supporting Wikipedia.
998 videos foundNext > 

A Project about CFCs

Chlorofluorocarbons and their causes.

Chlorofluorocarbons

Chlorofluorocarbons Science Culminating

For Science class.

Montreal Protocol - UNIDO in China

The Montreal Protocol is an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of a number of substances believed to be r...

Ozone Layer if Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) had not been Regulated

The visualizations below present two cases, from several different viewing positions: the 'world avoided' case, where the rate of CFC emission into the atmos...

F. Sherwood Rowland on Origin and Uses of Chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs - UC Irvine

F. Sherwood Rowland, UCI Bren Research Professor of chemistry and Earth system science, received the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering that chlor...

What Would have Happened to the Ozone Layer ?

What would have happened to the ozone layer if chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) had not been regulated in the 1986 Montreal Protocol ? This NASA Goddard model runs...

Chlorofluorocarbons and Ozone

Chemistry Project_Group 5_3CR_12'

Effect of Chlorofluorocarbons

Effect of Chlorofluorocarbons.

F. Sherwood Rowland on Origin and Uses of Chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs - UC Irvine

F. Sherwood Rowland, UCI Bren Research Professor of chemistry and Earth system science, received the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering that chlor...

998 videos foundNext > 

79 news items

 
Wall Street Journal (press release)
Wed, 22 May 2013 09:02:50 -0700

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/7s2tlc/refrigerant) has announced the addition of the "Refrigerant Market - Hydro Chlorofluorocarbons (HCFC), Hydro fluorocarbon (HFC), Hydrocarbon (HC), Inorganic (Ammonia, Carbon ...

Telegraph.co.uk

UPI.com
Mon, 13 May 2013 14:24:23 -0700

The discovery by Farman and his colleagues of the ozone hole in the atmosphere over the South Pole prompted the Montreal Protocol, an international agreement that banned the production of chlorofluorocarbons -- chief culprit in ozone depletion ...

Huffington Post

Huffington Post
Wed, 22 May 2013 06:08:48 -0700

Another Oil Eight member, the Cato Institute, also has long disparaged environmental and public health safeguards. Over the years, its "scholars" have argued that the science behind the worldwide ban on chlorofluorocarbons was "distorted, even ...

TakePart

Barre Montpelier Times Argus
Wed, 22 May 2013 00:06:44 -0700

After 1974, when two American scientists, Mario Molina and F. Sherwood Rowland, proved that chlorofluorocarbons, commonly used in aerosol spray cans and refrigeration, could destroy ozone in the upper atmosphere, the United States and a few other ...
 
Purdue Exponent (blog)
Tue, 21 May 2013 05:09:32 -0700

... warming the area further. A few governments across the world have put forth effort to slow ozone depletion by banning chlorofluorocarbons and other halogens known for depleting ozone, but ultimately the decision lies in the hands of the everyday ...

Mother Nature Network (blog)

Mother Nature Network (blog)
Mon, 20 May 2013 11:53:37 -0700

Scientists had already begun to grasp the complex nature of ozone — a pollutant at ground level but a life-saving shield in the atmosphere — and even knew it may be vulnerable to chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), chemicals used in aerosol sprays and ...

Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press
Sat, 18 May 2013 06:41:25 -0700

The culprit is chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). Since 1987, developed countries began the process of phasing them out and safely destroying their residue. In Manitoba, CFC-containing chillers must either be switched over to a new, approved cooling system or ...

The Sunday Times

Sydney Morning Herald
Thu, 16 May 2013 21:45:11 -0700

There had already been scientific speculation about how the ozone layer might be affected by man-made pollutants such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) - synthetic chemicals used in a huge range of products from foams to aerosol cans. Studies in the 1970s ...
Loading

Oops, we seem to be having trouble contacting Twitter

Talk About Chlorofluorocarbons

You can talk about Chlorofluorocarbons with people all over the world in our discussions.

Support Wikipedia

A portion of the proceeds from advertising on Digplanet goes to supporting Wikipedia. Please add your support for Wikipedia!