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Chloroflourocarbons
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were discovered in the 1920's by Thomas Midgley, an
organic chemist at General Motors Corporation. He was looking for inert, non-
toxic, non-flammable compounds with low boiling points that could be used as
refrigerants. He found what he was looking for in the form of two compounds:
dichlorodifluoromethane (CFC-12) and trichloromonoflouromethan ....
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....dorant to hair spray. In 1954,
188 million cans were sold in the U.S. alone, and four years later, the number
jumped to 500 million. CFC filled cans were so popular that, by 1968, 2.3
billion spray cans were sold in America.
The hopes of a seemingly perfect refrigerant were diminished in the late
1960's when scientists studied the decomposit.... |
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