Earlier this year, researchers warned that growing popularity of flat screen TV`s was releasing increasing amounts of a powerful greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. it is said that the TV`s level of gas is four times as high as previously estimated and they are raising quickly. nitrogen trifloride is the main cause of this problem. the colourless, odurless, non-flammable gas is used in the electronics industry for equipment cleaning, for etching microcircuits and for manufacturing liquid crystal flat panel displays and then film cells. however, industries are under no obligation to provise accurate accounts of how much NF3 they are emitting.
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