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- noun chemistry any
chloride containing threefluorine atoms in eachmolecule
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The research, based on data from a NASA-funded measurement network, examined nitrogen trifluoride, which is thousands of times more effective at warming the atmosphere than an equal mass of carbon dioxide.
Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed 2008
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Using new analytical techniques, a research team in California has made the first atmospheric measurements of nitrogen trifluoride, which is thousands of times more effective at warming the atmosphere than an equal mass of carbon dioxide.
innovations-report 2008
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The research, based on data from a NASA-funded measurement network, examined nitrogen trifluoride, which is thousands of times more effective at warming the atmosphere than an equal mass of carbon dioxide.
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The research, based on data from a NASA-funded measurement network, examined nitrogen trifluoride, which is thousands of times more effective at warming the atmosphere than an equal mass of carbon dioxide.
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The manufacturing process for these devices results in the release of a gas called nitrogen trifluoride, or NF3, which does approximately 17,000 times more environmental damage than carbon dioxide.
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I thought the ClF3 chlorine trifluoride he wrote about previously was bad, but this is a whole level of magnitude beyond that.
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Nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), another global warming whopper (17,000 times more powerful than CO2), is used in the manufacturing of thin-film PV panels.
Jennifer Grayson: Eco Etiquette: How Green Are Solar Panels? 2010
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The manufacturing process for these devices results in the release of a gas called nitrogen trifluoride, or NF3, which does approximately 17,000 times more environmental damage than carbon dioxide.
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The manufacturing process for these devices results in the release of a gas called nitrogen trifluoride, or NF3, which does approximately 17,000 times more environmental damage than carbon dioxide.
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Whilst nitrogen trifluoride is certainly worthy of inclusion under the Kyoto protocol, along with perfluorocarbons and the like, especially as worldwide consumption of the gas grows, it is however nothing worth making a huge irrational fuss in the media about.
Archive 2008-07-01 EliRabett 2008
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