Chlorofluorocarbon Essay

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CFC
Introduction:
The organic compound Chlorofluorocarbon is known as CFC. This compound is made of chlorine fluorine and carbon only. CFC is in the group volatile organic compound. The CFC was first invented or made in 1928. The main purpose of CFC was to uses as refrigerants for refrigeration. Freon is the trade name of CFC .There are some main reasons behind the wide use of CFC. Non-toxic and flammability were the main reason. Around in 1960s the use of CFC increases among the developing nations. As the use of CFC increases it start to destroy the ozone layer. Fluorine and chlorine atom are separated in the reaction they remain stratosphere for long time and lowly destroy ozone layer. After that different other alternatives to CFC were, those alternatives were not harmful to ozone layer but they have a great influence on global warming.
There are different kinds of CFC. They arranged according to number fluorine and hydrogen. The banned CFC are CFC-11, -12, -113, -114, -115. Because these CFC has ozone depleting potential (ODP) as they are not soluble in water. CFC mainly emitted from aerosol sprays, industrial waste and refrigeration.

The Reactions of Chlorofluorocarbon

One of the key reaction of the CFCs is:
CCl3F → CCl2F. + Cl.
In this reaction one Cl atom dissociate from CCl3F in presence of light.

CFC or chlorofluorocarbon goes under dissociate reaction in ultraviolet radiation and produce dichlorodifluoromethane, a chlorine radical which is highly reactive:

The chlorine free radicals take the ozone from the atmosphere and produce highly reactive ClO and oxygen.

In the second layer of earth’s atmosphere, also known as stratosphere the ozone continuously undergoes in formation and decomposition. The oxygen free...

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...tor in lots of fields including the technological progress. CFCs is used massively in the food process, seventy five percent of the food in U.S has gone through a refrigerant that uses CFCs. CFCs is used excessively in the U.S as a research by Steed showed that twenty eight billion dollars a year is the price of the products that CFCs have been used to manufacture and produce. [Reference n.2]

Reference list

[Reference n.1] : Plummer, N.,L., & Busenburg, E. (2006, March). Use of chlorofluorocarbons in hydrology a guidebook. Retrieved from http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/pdf/Pub1238_web.pdf [Reference n.2] : Steed, M., J. (1989). Present uses of chlorofluorocarbons and effects due to environmental regulations. International Journal of Thermophysics, 10(3), 545-552. Available from http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00507977

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