How to Use refrigerant in a Sentence

refrigerant

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  • The fifth reason could be a low refrigerant charge in your AC system.
    — Dallas News, 26 Jan. 2021
  • Both of those devices pump heat in reverse: Warm air is absorbed by the refrigerant coils and pumped out.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2021
  • In warm months, air-source heat pumps suck out hot air from a room and blow it over a coil and cycle it through a refrigerant so cold air comes back inside.
    — Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 21 July 2022
  • Heat pumps use a refrigerant to transfer heat from the outside air, ground or water into a home.
    — Kim MacKrael, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The Ultium motors are oil cooled and that oil flows through an oil-to-refrigerant heat exchanger.
    — Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
  • During the winter, the water or refrigerant absorbs warmth from underground while the pump brings this heat to the building above.
    — Donna Sarkar, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2021
  • As the refrigerant expands, a pump takes it away, and a radiator dumps its absorbed heat.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Heat pumps, by contrast, just move refrigerant around the house in insulated pipes.
    — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 May 2022
  • Homes that are air-conditioned are likely serviced every few years and may be topped off with refrigerant.
    — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
  • This is linked to both its strain on the electricity grid and faulty AC units that leak refrigerant chemicals—which are potent greenhouse gasses.
    — Daniel Leonard, Scientific American, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The researchers didn’t observe any flooding of the liquid refrigerant in the compressor, which could have backflowed into the device.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2021
  • But, at some point, maybe not until my new fridge is crushed for scrap metal at the end of its useful life, that 127 grams of refrigerant will likely be released into the atmosphere.
    — Phil McKenna, The Courier-Journal, 19 Apr. 2021
  • The leak is believed to have occurred when a refrigerant system being installed on the second floor was activated and a frozen pipe cracked, the statement said.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Finally, the refrigerant evaporates into a gas and flows back to the compressor to start its journey again.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 14 June 2021
  • Instead of heating the air, heat pumps move heat from one place to another by converting a substance called refrigerant between its liquid and gas forms.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2021
  • The air conditioning condenser sits in front of the car's radiator to cool the compressed refrigerant gas into a liquid.
    — Motormouth Bob Weber, Star Tribune, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Similarly, a home air conditioning unit compresses refrigerant with a pump and then expands it to cool the air.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Heat pumps work like a reverse air-conditioner, using a large fan that draws air past tubes with refrigerant to extract warmth from the outside environment.
    — Patrick Junker Patrick Junker, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
  • One kilogram of a typical refrigerant gas can contribute as much to the greenhouse effect as two metric tons of carbon dioxide.
    — Brian Owens, Discover Magazine, 17 May 2019
  • Several thermal shields meant to keep ITER’s liquid helium refrigerant cold and protect the walls of the machine corroded and cracked because of the way the welds interacted with an acid used to wash the metal.
    — Charles Seife, Scientific American, 15 June 2023
  • Industry officials dispute that, noting that the refrigerant compound represents about 1% of the price of the cost of a cooling appliance.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 24 Sep. 2021
  • On Earth, the moving parts of the compressor are coated with oil that lubricates, cools rubbing parts and helps with pressurizing gasified refrigerant.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2021
  • The main difference is that through-the-wall air conditioners connect directly to the outdoor unit instead of connecting through the electrical and refrigerant lines.
    — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 July 2022
  • Once widely used as a refrigerant and in foam insulation, CFC-11 was first synthesized a century ago.
    — Henry Fountain, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Hazlet Township police received a report from the store around 6:45 a.m. Wednesday about a leak of Freon, a gas used as a refrigerant in air conditioning, the police department said in a statement on Facebook.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 29 Dec. 2021
  • The Novva campus uses closed, recirculating pipes with refrigerant to cool its servers.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 July 2022
  • General Exterior Seal any gaps around the home 'envelope'; check for loose or dried-out caulking around pipes, ducts, faucets, air conditioner refrigerant lines, etc.
    — Reuben Saltzman, Star Tribune, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Greenhouse gases created by burning gasoline and natural gas and the refrigerant that has slowly escaped into the atmosphere make up most of my Scope 1 emissions.
    — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
  • As opposed to typical air conditioners that use refrigerant to cool the air, evaporative air conditioners rely on water or ice to cool the air.
    — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 July 2022
  • Another significant problem is the refrigerant charge for a central air unit.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2021
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refrigerant

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  • As the world heats up, so does demand for AC and refrigerants.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
  • For five of the nine ice rinks at the Beijing Olympics, the natural refrigerant is CO2.
    — Aurora Almendral, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2022
  • But sometimes, the back of a fridge can get hot as the refrigerant moves through the compressor, causing the coils to contract, which traps the gas.
    — Temi Adebowale, House Beautiful, 7 Jan. 2019
  • Wood said more than half of all models sold in the U.S. by GE now use a climate-friendly refrigerant.
    — Phil McKenna, The Courier-Journal, 15 Mar. 2021
  • This coil is colder than the air because it’s filled with cold refrigerant.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 15 Mar. 2019
  • For that, the temperature needs to be low enough for the air to act as a kind of refrigerant, drawing heat off the skin so the engine can keep pumping.
    — David Wallace-Wells, Daily Intelligencer, 9 July 2017
  • Air source heat pumps use a refrigerant to absorb heat from the outdoor air, which then gets passed on to rooms in a house or a hot water supply.
    — WIRED, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Like other CFCs, 11 can be used as a refrigerant or a propellant in aerosol spray cans.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 9 July 2018
  • The heat energy in the room passes through the metal coil into the cold refrigerant inside.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2023
  • The blast was sparked by a three and a half gallon container of refrigerant inside the home that found an ignition source, Evans said.
    — Bay City News, The Mercury News, 18 June 2019
  • The setup would avoid the need for fluid refrigerants that can leak and contribute to global warming.
    — George Musser, Science | AAAS, 10 Oct. 2019
  • The compressor, located at the back of most fridges, contains a motor and pump which push a gas refrigerant through the compressor's coils.
    — Temi Adebowale, House Beautiful, 7 Jan. 2019
  • There are several ways to cool things off, but the most common method is using a compressor and refrigerant.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2023
  • CFCs were once found in aerosol sprays, refrigerants, solvents, and other products.
    — David Freeman /, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2018
  • That refrigerant goes to the heat pump where thermal energy is extracted and transferred to the battery coolant.
    — Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Most refrigerators have condenser coils located across the bottom or at the back of the unit that cool and condense the refrigerant.
    — Daniel Bortz, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2019
  • The brief was to develop technology that could get cold at the press of button with zero refrigerant.
    — Fortune, 8 Aug. 2017
  • The same refrigerants and gases that damage the ozone layer contribute to climate change.
    — Emily Holden, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Chloroethane, also known as ethyl chloride, is used as a solvent, refrigerant and local anesthetic, the IFS said in a statement.
    — Mike Morris, Houston Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2018
  • An Ice Cave is lined with refrigerant tubing encrusted with 70 tons of frozen water that was sculpted by a local artist.
    — Julie V. Iovine, WSJ, 25 July 2018
  • The concept is based on using liquid hydrogen as both a refrigerant and a fuel.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Just one worker that was working on the refrigerant system upstairs.
    — Jeff Forward, Houston Chronicle, 21 June 2019
  • In cooling mode, a heat pump works just like your air conditioner, using a refrigerant to absorb heat from your room and moving it outside.
    — Rachel Wolfe, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Germany didn’t require Mercedes to scrap the refrigerant, which the court ruled was in violation of European law.
    — William Boston, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2018
  • This chemical has been used as a refrigerant, solvent, and propellant for aerosol spray cans, as well as in the production of styrofoam.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 16 May 2018
  • Alprazolam is the generic form of Xanax, while difluoroethane is found in refrigerants and aerosol sprays.
    — Dan Heching, CNN, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The name ‘heat pump’ is a misnomer because the machine uses electricity and a refrigerant to provide both heating and cooling.
    — Gwozniac, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
  • As a bonus, refrigerants—which are often greenhouse gases that are many times more potent than carbon dioxide—aren’t involved at all.
    — Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Our Honda dealer detected the refrigerant level to be low at 7 oz.
    — Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2017
  • The compressor circulates the refrigerant throughout the system and constricts the refrigerant into a vapor, pushing it through coils on the outside of the fridge.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 14 June 2021

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