refrigerant.

A substance used in a cooling system to absorb and release heat.

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Words that belong together

• liquid refrigerant
• refrigerant leak

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A refrigerant leak forced the laboratory to shut down its cooling system.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular refrigerant; plural refrigerants. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, technology. Commonness: moderately common.