It was only the next day that he visited a mechanic and learned the air conditioner had run out of Freon.

The vessel was reported to have an estimated 55,000 gallons of diesel and 19,000 pounds of Freon, a noncombustible gas commonly used as a refrigerant.

At DuPont, the new arrangement housed the company's Freon refrigerant division.

Freon, a chlorofluorocarbon, was the solution to replace toxic and flammable ammonia in refrigerators, but then it caused stratospheric ozone depletion.

The words floated out of his mouth cooler than Freon and everybody danced.