What are the Health effects of chlorofluorocarbons?

Answer 1

we use refrigerators and air conditioners, etc... and they release chlorofluorocarbons into the atmosphere. we also use hairspray, febreeze and other cans that are condensed and they all release CFCs.

Answer 2

If you were to encounter chlorofluorocarbons (CFC's) from some antiquated piece of equipment (CFC's have been banned since 1996), the most likely health effects would be temporary and relatively harmless respiratory discomfort. You'd have to be hit by a huge dose of CFC's to experience more than minor throat irritation and a bit of coughing. Exposure to a direct jet of escaping CFC gas could cause local frostbite. CFC's are non-toxic and non-carcinogenic. Encountering a huge amount of CFC's could lead to respiratory distress because they could displace the air in the local environment, causing you to breath in CFC's instead of air. You would become disoriented and then unconscious, just as with any other air-displacement event. CFC's were not banned because of their direct health effects. They were banned because of their environmental effects, including (1) their greenhouse effect, trapping heat and leading to global warming, and (2) their destruction of the Ozone Layer, which protects us from harmful Solar Ultraviolet Radiation. Once in the Earth's stratosphere, CFC's can block the formation of protective ozone for over 100 years.

Answer 3

"HARMFUL EFFECT OF CHLOROFLOURO CARBON"

The chloroflouro carbon effect is,it make's our ozone layer thin and because of that ultra violet rise freely enter our earth.Ultra violet rise is hamful to man because it is the sorse of cancer of the skin or skin deseas.

Answer 4

Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are organic compounds, and contain carbon, fluorine and chlorine atoms.

CFCs damage the ozone layer. One example of the consequences of CFCs is the ozone layer hole right above the South Pole. There is evidence to suggest that CFCs, or chlorofluorocarbons, deplete the ozone layer. the problem with this, is that with the depletion of the ozone layer comes a loss of protection from harmful UV radiation from the sun. For example, in New Zealand where the air is purest and the ozone layer thinner, rates of skin cancer are among the highest in the world.

Answer 5

The effect of CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) is to destroy the ozone layer.

The cause of CFCs is us, as CFCs are a man-made gas. (Luckily the world agreed to stop making them, and the ozone layer is slowly rebuilding itself.)

Answer 6

Chlorofluorocarbons are destructive to the Earth's ozone layer. This, in turn, results in excess ultraviolet radiation reaching the surface.