Letter: Letters: Canned gas

Published 9 April 1994

From JOHN ALLSOP

Q: We often hear that Freons in aerosols and refrigerators can be damaging
when they are released.

Before these gases were utilised in containers, where did they exist?

John Allsop Rayleigh, Essex

Issue no. 1920 published 9 April 1994

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