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ANTHROPOGENIC CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS [1 record]

Record 1 2011-08-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemical Elements and Compounds
  • Pollutants
CONT

"We know the ozone itself is gone, but we know so little about what else is happening that everyone can speculate." Many of the speculations, including Farman's own, point to rising levels of man-made chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) as the culprit. Other explanations point to natural - as opposed to man-made - perturbations of the atmosphere as behind the seasonal changes.

Key term(s)
  • anthropogenic chlorofluorocarbons
  • man-made chlorofluorocarbons

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments et composés chimiques
  • Agents de pollution
DEF

[Chlorofluorocarbone] qui résulte directement ou indirectement de l'activité humaine.

OBS

Les CFC sont des produits organiques qui ne peuvent exister naturellement si on fait exception du chlorométhane. Le déterminant anthropique ne sert ici qu'à insister sur l'entière responsabilité du genre humain dans leur présence dans l'atmosphère. En français, à moins que cette insistance ne soit recherchée ou qu'on ne mette en opposition l'ensemble des hydrocarbures avec le chlorométhane, le déterminant anthropique est généralement implicite.

Spanish

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