noun. Any of a group of organic compounds that contain carbon, fluorine, and hydrogen, used as refrigerants and in other products in place of chlorofluorocarbons.

noun. A haloalkane composed entirely of carbon, hydrogen, and fluorine.

noun. a fluorocarbon emitted as a by-product of industrial manufacturing

"The Shandong Dongyuen, Zhejiang Dongyang and China Fluoro projects, which destroy a potent gas called hydrofluorocarbon-23 and are approved under Kyoto's $2.7 billion Clean Development"

fluorocarbon  greenhouse emission  greenhouse gas