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Fluorocarbon

Index Fluorocarbon

Fluorocarbons, sometimes referred to as perfluorocarbons or PFCs, are, strictly speaking, organofluorine compounds with the formula CxFy, i.e. they contain only carbon and fluorine, though the terminology is not strictly followed. [1]

91 relations: Acetone, Anesthetic, Benzene, Birch reduction, Blood substitute, Boiling point, Bulk modulus, Carbon, Carbon monoxide, Carbon–fluorine bond, Carbonyl fluoride, Chemical polarity, Chemical vapor deposition, Chlorofluorocarbon, Cobalt(III) fluoride, Compressibility, Contrast-enhanced ultrasound, Covalent bond, Cyclohexane, Dichloroacetylene, Dielectric, Difluoroacetylene, Electrochemical fluorination, Electrolysis, Electronegativity, Enthalpy of vaporization, Ethanol, Ethylbenzene, Fire Technology, Flash point, Fluorine, Fluorochemical industry, Fluorographene, Fluoropolymer, Fluorosurfactant, Fowler process, Geminal, Greenhouse gas, Heteroatom, Hexafluoro-2-butyne, Hexafluorobenzene, Hexafluoroethane, Hexafluoropropylene, Hydrocarbon, Hydrogen fluoride, Hydrophobe, Inductive effect, Intermolecular force, Kyoto Protocol, Lipophobicity, ..., Liquid breathing, Liquid dielectric, London dispersion force, Miscibility, Naphthalene, Nitrous oxide, Octafluoropropane, Organic Rankine cycle, Organofluorine chemistry, Oxygen, Ozone depletion, Partial charge, Perflenapent, Perfluoro-1,3-dimethylcyclohexane, Perfluorobutane, Perfluorocarbon tracer, Perfluorocycloalkene, Perfluorodecalin, Perfluorohexane, Perfluoroisobutene, Perfluoromethylcyclohexane, Perfluoromethyldecalin, Perfluorooctane, Polarizability, Polytetrafluoroethylene, Refractive index, Refrigerant, Saturated and unsaturated compounds, Saturation (chemistry), Solvent, Sublimation (phase transition), Surface energy, Surface tension, Tetrafluoroethylene, Tetrafluoromethane, Tetrahydrofuran, Toluene, Viscosity, Volatility (chemistry), Water, World War II. Expand index (41 more) »

Acetone

Acetone (systematically named propanone) is the organic compound with the formula (CH3)2CO.

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Anesthetic

An anesthetic (or anaesthetic) is a drug to prevent pain during surgery, completely blocking any feeling as opposed to an analgesic.

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Benzene

Benzene is an important organic chemical compound with the chemical formula C6H6.

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Birch reduction

The Birch reduction is an organic reaction which is particularly useful in synthetic organic chemistry.

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Blood substitute

A blood substitute (also called artificial blood or blood surrogate) is a substance used to mimic and fulfill some functions of biological blood.

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Boiling point

The boiling point of a substance is the temperature at which the vapor pressure of the liquid equals the pressure surrounding the liquid and the liquid changes into a vapor.

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Bulk modulus

The bulk modulus (K or B) of a substance is a measure of how resistant to compressibility that substance is.

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Carbon

Carbon (from carbo "coal") is a chemical element with symbol C and atomic number 6.

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Carbon monoxide

Carbon monoxide (CO) is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas that is slightly less dense than air.

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Carbon–fluorine bond

The carbon–fluorine bond is a polar covalent bond between carbon and fluorine that is a component of all organofluorine compounds.

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Carbonyl fluoride

Carbonyl fluoride is a chemical compound with the formula COF2.

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Chemical polarity

In chemistry, polarity is a separation of electric charge leading to a molecule or its chemical groups having an electric dipole or multipole moment.

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Chemical vapor deposition

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is deposition method used to produce high quality, high-performance, solid materials, typically under vacuum.

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Chlorofluorocarbon

Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are fully halogenated paraffin hydrocarbons that contain only carbon (С), chlorine (Cl), and fluorine (F), produced as volatile derivative of methane, ethane, and propane.

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Cobalt(III) fluoride

Cobalt(III) fluoride is the inorganic compound with the formula CoF3.

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Compressibility

In thermodynamics and fluid mechanics, compressibility (also known as the coefficient of compressibility or isothermal compressibility) is a measure of the relative volume change of a fluid or solid as a response to a pressure (or mean stress) change.

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Contrast-enhanced ultrasound

Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) is the application of ultrasound contrast medium to traditional medical sonography.

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Covalent bond

A covalent bond, also called a molecular bond, is a chemical bond that involves the sharing of electron pairs between atoms.

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Cyclohexane

Cyclohexane is a cycloalkane with the molecular formula C6H12 (the alkyl is abbreviated Cy).

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Dichloroacetylene

Dichloroacetylene (DCA) is an oily pyrophoric liquid chemical compound with the chemical formula C2Cl2.

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Dielectric

A dielectric (or dielectric material) is an electrical insulator that can be polarized by an applied electric field.

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Difluoroacetylene

Difluoroacetylene, C2F2, is a compound of carbon and fluorine.

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Electrochemical fluorination

Electrochemical fluorination (ECF), or electrofluorination, is a foundational organofluorine chemistry method for the preparation of fluorocarbon-based organofluorine compounds.

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Electrolysis

In chemistry and manufacturing, electrolysis is a technique that uses a direct electric current (DC) to drive an otherwise non-spontaneous chemical reaction.

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Electronegativity

Electronegativity, symbol ''χ'', is a chemical property that describes the tendency of an atom to attract a shared pair of electrons (or electron density) towards itself.

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Enthalpy of vaporization

The enthalpy of vaporization, (symbol ∆Hvap) also known as the (latent) heat of vaporization or heat of evaporation, is the amount of energy (enthalpy) that must be added to a liquid substance, to transform a quantity of that substance into a gas.

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Ethanol

Ethanol, also called alcohol, ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol, and drinking alcohol, is a chemical compound, a simple alcohol with the chemical formula.

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Ethylbenzene

Ethylbenzene is an organic compound with the formula C6H5CH2CH3.

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Fire Technology

Fire Technology is a peer-reviewed journal publishing scientific research dealing with the full range of actual, possible, and potential fire hazards facing humans and the environment.

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Flash point

The flash point of a volatile material is the lowest temperature at which vapours of the material will ignite, when given an ignition source.

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Fluorine

Fluorine is a chemical element with symbol F and atomic number 9.

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Fluorochemical industry

The global market for chemicals from fluorine was about US$16 billion per year as of 2006.

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Fluorographene

Fluorographene (or perfluorographane, graphene fluoride) is a fluorocarbon derivative of graphene.

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Fluoropolymer

A fluoropolymer is a fluorocarbon-based polymer with multiple carbon–fluorine bonds.

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Fluorosurfactant

Fluorosurfactants (also fluorinated surfactants, perfluorinated alkylated substances or PFASs) are synthetic organofluorine chemical compounds that have multiple fluorine atoms.

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Fowler process

The Fowler process is an industry and laboratory route to fluorocarbons, by fluorinating hydrocarbons or their partially fluorinated derivatives in the vapor phase over cobalt(III) fluoride.

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Geminal

In chemistry, the descriptor geminal refers to the relationship between two atoms or functional groups that are attached to the same atom.

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Greenhouse gas

A greenhouse gas is a gas in an atmosphere that absorbs and emits radiant energy within the thermal infrared range.

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Heteroatom

In chemistry, a heteroatom (from Ancient Greek heteros, "different", + atomos, "uncut") is any atom that is not carbon or hydrogen.

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Hexafluoro-2-butyne

Hexafluoro-2-butyne is the fluorocarbon with the formula CF3C≡CCF3.

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Hexafluorobenzene

Hexafluorobenzene, HFB,, or perfluorobenzene is an organic, aromatic compound.

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Hexafluoroethane

Hexafluoroethane is a fluorocarbon counterpart to the hydrocarbon ethane.

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Hexafluoropropylene

Hexafluoropropylene is a compound with the formula C3F6.

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Hydrocarbon

In organic chemistry, a hydrocarbon is an organic compound consisting entirely of hydrogen and carbon.

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Hydrogen fluoride

Hydrogen fluoride is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.

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Hydrophobe

In chemistry, hydrophobicity is the physical property of a molecule (known as a hydrophobe) that is seemingly repelled from a mass of water.

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Inductive effect

In chemistry and physics, the inductive effect is an experimentally observed effect of the transmission of charge through a chain of atoms in a molecule, resulting in a permanent dipole in a bond.

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Intermolecular force

Intermolecular forces (IMF) are the forces which mediate interaction between molecules, including forces of attraction or repulsion which act between molecules and other types of neighboring particles, e.g., atoms or ions.

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Kyoto Protocol

The Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty which extends the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the scientific consensus that (part one) global warming is occurring and (part two) it is extremely likely that human-made CO2 emissions have predominantly caused it.

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Lipophobicity

Lipophobicity, also sometimes called lipophobia (from the Greek λιποφοβία from λίπος lipos "fat" and φόβος phobos "fear"), is a chemical property of chemical compounds which means "fat rejection", literally "fear of fat".

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Liquid breathing

Liquid breathing is a form of respiration in which a normally air-breathing organism breathes an oxygen-rich liquid (such as a perfluorocarbon), rather than breathing air.

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Liquid dielectric

A liquid dielectric is a dielectric material in liquid state.

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London dispersion force

London dispersion forces (LDF, also known as dispersion forces, London forces, instantaneous dipole–induced dipole forces, or loosely van der Waals forces) are a type of force acting between atoms and molecules.

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Miscibility

Miscibility is the property of substances to mix in all proportions (that is, to fully dissolve in each other at any concentration), forming a homogeneous solution.

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Naphthalene

Naphthalene is an organic compound with formula.

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Nitrous oxide

Nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas or nitrous, is a chemical compound, an oxide of nitrogen with the formula.

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Octafluoropropane

Octafluoropropane (C3F8) is a fluorocarbon non-flammable greenhouse gas that can be produced either by electrochemical fluorination or by the Fowler process using cobalt fluoride.

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Organic Rankine cycle

The Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) is named for its use of an organic, high molecular mass fluid with a liquid-vapor phase change, or boiling point, occurring at a lower temperature than the water-steam phase change.

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Organofluorine chemistry

Organofluorine chemistry describes the chemistry of the organofluorines, organic compounds that contain the carbon–fluorine bond.

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Oxygen

Oxygen is a chemical element with symbol O and atomic number 8.

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Ozone depletion

Ozone depletion describes two related events observed since the late 1970s: a steady lowering of about four percent in the total amount of ozone in Earth's atmosphere(the ozone layer), and a much larger springtime decrease in stratospheric ozone around Earth's polar regions.

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Partial charge

A partial charge is a non-integer charge value when measured in elementary charge units.

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Perflenapent

Perflenapent (INN/USAN), or perfluoropentane (PFP), is a fluorocarbon.

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Perfluoro-1,3-dimethylcyclohexane

Perfluoro-1,3-dimethylcyclohexane is a fluorocarbon liquid—a perfluorinated derivative of the hydrocarbon 1,3-dimethylcyclohexane.

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Perfluorobutane

Perfluorobutane (PFB) is a colorless gas.

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Perfluorocarbon tracer

Perfluorocarbon tracers (PFTs) are a range of perfluorocarbons used in tracer applications.

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Perfluorocycloalkene

Perfluorocycloalkene (PFCA) is a general class of fluorocarbon compounds comprising many commercially available perfluorocyclo-olefins including hexafluorocyclobutene (or perfluorocyclobutene), octafluorocyclopentene (or perfluorocyclopentene) and decafluorocyclohexene (or perfluorocyclohexene) (Figure 1).

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Perfluorodecalin

Perfluorodecalin is a fluorocarbon, a derivative of decalin in which all of the hydrogen atoms are replaced by fluorine atoms.

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Perfluorohexane

Perfluorohexane, or tetradecafluorohexane, is a fluorocarbon.

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Perfluoroisobutene

Perfluoroisobutene (PFIB), also known as 1,1,3,3,3-pentafluoro-2-(trifluoromethyl)prop-1-ene, is a fluorocarbon alkene.

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Perfluoromethylcyclohexane

Perfluoromethylcyclohexane is a fluorocarbon liquid—a perfluorinated derivative of the hydrocarbon methylcyclohexane.

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Perfluoromethyldecalin

Perfluoromethyldecalin is a fluorocarbon liquid—a perfluorinated derivative of the hydrocarbon methyldecalin.

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Perfluorooctane

Perfluorooctane, also known as octadecafluorooctane, is a fluorocarbon liquid—a perfluorinated derivative of the hydrocarbon octane.

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Polarizability

Polarizability is the ability to form instantaneous dipoles.

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Polytetrafluoroethylene

Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is a synthetic fluoropolymer of tetrafluoroethylene that has numerous applications.

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Refractive index

In optics, the refractive index or index of refraction of a material is a dimensionless number that describes how light propagates through that medium.

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Refrigerant

A refrigerant is a substance or mixture, usually a fluid, used in a heat pump and refrigeration cycle.

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Saturated and unsaturated compounds

In organic chemistry, a saturated compound is a chemical compound that has single bonds.

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Saturation (chemistry)

In chemistry, saturation (from the Latin word saturare, meaning 'to fill') has diverse meanings, all based on the idea of reaching a maximum capacity.

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Solvent

A solvent (from the Latin solvō, "loosen, untie, solve") is a substance that dissolves a solute (a chemically distinct liquid, solid or gas), resulting in a solution.

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Sublimation (phase transition)

Sublimation is the transition of a substance directly from the solid to the gas phase, without passing through the intermediate liquid phase.

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Surface energy

Surface Free energy, or interfacial free energy, quantifies the disruption of intermolecular bonds that occur when a surface is created.

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Surface tension

Surface tension is the elastic tendency of a fluid surface which makes it acquire the least surface area possible.

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Tetrafluoroethylene

Tetrafluoroethylene (TFE) is a fluoromonomer with chemical formula C2F4.

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Tetrafluoromethane

Tetrafluoromethane, also known as carbon tetrafluoride, is the simplest fluorocarbon (CF4).

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Tetrahydrofuran

Tetrahydrofuran (THF) is an organic compound with the formula (CH2)4O.

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Toluene

Toluene, also known as toluol, is an aromatic hydrocarbon.

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Viscosity

The viscosity of a fluid is the measure of its resistance to gradual deformation by shear stress or tensile stress.

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Volatility (chemistry)

In chemistry and physics, volatility is quantified by the tendency of a substance to vaporize.

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Water

Water is a transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance that is the main constituent of Earth's streams, lakes, and oceans, and the fluids of most living organisms.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorocarbon

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