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A chemical that gets paid to feel other people's heat so you don't have to.
means A fluid used in refrigeration and air-conditioning systems that absorbs heat as it evaporates and releases it as it condenses, cycling between gas and liquid to move heat from one place to another.
from From Latin refrigerare, 'to make cool again' — re- ('again') plus frigerare, from frigus ('cold,' the same root giving us frigid). The word simply names what the substance does: it re-cools, over and over, cycle after cycle.
- the trick
- evaporates and condenses to move heat, not create cold
- freon era
- CFCs ate the ozone layer, got banned in 1987
- current villain
- HFCs fixed ozone, now accused of warming climate
- next act
- industry shifting to propane and CO2, oddly old school