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All textbooksBrown 15th EditionCh.18 - Chemistry of the EnvironmentProblem 23

Chapter 18, Problem 23

(a) What is the difference between chlorofluorocarbons and hydrofluorocarbons?

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Welcome back everyone in this example, we need to determine what makes a hydro flora carbon different than a chlorofluorocarbon. So let's begin by drawing out a hydrofluorocarbons recall that we have a carbon atom bonded to its bonding preference of four atoms to be stable. Where these four atoms would be an arrangement of hydrogen and flooring. So we could have two flooring atoms and maybe two hydrogen atoms. Or we could have three flooring atoms and one hydrogen atom. Any arrangement of these three atoms flooring, hydrogen and carbon would give us our hydro floral carbon. Moving on to our next structure, which is a chlorofluorocarbon, we have carbon bonded to its bonding preference of four atoms again, where in this case these four atoms could be florine and chlorine. So any arrangement of fluorine and chlorine, we could have three florin atoms, three chlorine atoms and carbon. It doesn't matter as long as we have carbon, chlorine and fluorine, we have a chlor oh, floral carbon structure. And so going back to our prompt, what makes a hydrocarbon different from a chlorofluorocarbon? We're going to confirm that the difference lies where a hydro floral carbon substitutes hydrogen for chlorine in a chlorofluorocarbon and this statement would be our final answer to complete this example. As the difference between a Hydrofluoric carbon from a chlorofluorocarbon. So I hope everything I reviewed was clear if you have any questions, leave them down below and I will see everyone in the next practice video
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