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"ref": "1989, Commissariaat-Generaal voor de Internationale Samenwerking, Flanders - Issues 1-12, page 6",
"text": "Installation for replacing CFKs using Recticel LBL2 technology in the manufacture of insulating plates.",
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"ref": "1990, Stichting tot Bevordering van het Onderzoek in de Economische Wetenschappen, Economic Sciences in the Netherlands, ECOZOEK, page 159",
"text": "Sprays demolished by CFKs.",
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"ref": "1996, European Environmental Law Review, volume 5, Graham & Trotman/Martinus Nijhoff, page 50",
"text": "For instance, measures taken against computers the chips of which, in some countries, are cleaned with CFKs, thus damaging the ozone layer.",
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"ref": "1996, Martijntje Smits, Polymer Products And Waste Management: A Multidisciplinary Approach, International Books",
"text": "Other substances that are environmentally suspect are additives containing chlorine, phthalates, anti-fungals and CFKs. The environmental hazard of additives might become manifest during processing, but are particularly so at the waste stage, when the products are dumped or incinerated.",
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"ref": "2013, Kohei Narisada, Duco Schreuder, Light Pollution Handbook, Springer Science & Business Media, page 706",
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