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Atmospheric Chemistry

Periodic graphics: The chemistry of air-conditioning

Chemical educator and Compound Interest blogger Andy Brunning explains how refrigerants help keep us cool on hot summer days

by Andy Brunning
August 14, 2017 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 95, Issue 33

 

 

To download a pdf of this article, visit http://cenm.ag/air-conditioning.


References used to create this graphic:

A brief history of air conditioning

A history of air conditioning

Refrigerants for residential and commercial air conditioning units

R-32, a next generation refrigerant

Replacing the replacements

How air conditioners work

HFC phase-out agreed at Montreal Protocol meeting


A collaboration between C&EN and Andy Brunning, author of the popular graphics blog Compound Interest.

To see more of Brunning’s work, go to compoundchem.com. To see all of C&EN’s Periodic Graphics, visit http://cenm.ag/periodicgraphics.

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