How to Use sulfur dioxide in a Sentence

sulfur dioxide

noun
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  • At one time the smelters in Sudbury were the largest point source of sulfur dioxide in the world.
    — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Sep. 2020
  • How could anyone know how much sulfur dioxide is in the ash?
    — Peter Landers, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The plan was for the balloons, filled with helium and a small amount of sulfur dioxide, to float high into the stratosphere.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Its smokestacks belch out the worst sulfur dioxide pollution in the world.
    — NBC News, 28 Nov. 2021
  • The co-founders picked up shop and tried it again in Nevada, grilling fungicide in a parking lot to create the sulfur dioxide gas.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 11 June 2024
  • The other three, ozone, lead and sulfur dioxide, did decline.
    — Seth Borenstein, The Denver Post, 13 July 2019
  • The guides told them the sulfur dioxide and other gases on the island turn acidic when mixed with their saliva, and gave them candies to suck.
    — Nick Perry, Twin Cities, 14 Dec. 2019
  • The eruption would have spewed greenhouse gases and sulfur dioxide, which can cause acid rain.
    — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Pinatubo released 15 Tg, or about 38 times more sulfur dioxide.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The use of sulfur dioxide has been a difficult issue in the natural wine world.
    — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Added sulfites are a third-rail type of issue in wine, as sulfur dioxide helps prevent all kinds of spoilage in bottle.
    — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Some of them had been close to the fire at the Mishraq sulfur mine outside Mosul, thought to be the largest release of sulfur dioxide ever caused by humans.
    — New York Times, 11 Jan. 2022
  • In Europe, sulfur dioxide emissions fell by 84 percent and in the U.S. by 90 percent.
    — Hannah Ritchie, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Fritzsche doesn’t add anything else to his wines besides a judicious amount of sulfur dioxide.
    — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The most impactful changes for the climate turn out to be sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2020
  • The credit is supposed to represent the cooling effect that sulfur dioxide might have in the stratosphere.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Each balloon carries less than 10 grams of sulfur dioxide.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 24 Feb. 2023
  • In 1991, the volcano Mount Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines, sending millions of tons of ash and sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 5 Dec. 2018
  • For example, the lead and sulfur dioxide have dropped by double-digit percentages over the last two years.
    — Seth Borenstein, The Denver Post, 13 July 2019
  • One is to inject sulfur dioxide or a similar aerosol into the stratosphere to help shade the Earth from more intense sunlight.
    — John Fialka, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2020
  • For some, the eruption might cut down on some travel time, even if there is more vog, or volcanic smog caused by higher sulfur dioxide emissions.
    — Caleb Jones, Chicago Tribune, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Her team now wants to see how anthropogenic emissions, like sulfur dioxide, affect the ability of plants to seed clouds.
    — WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Decreases since January were even more abrupt, by 80% in the case of sulfur dioxide downtown.
    — Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 5 Apr. 2020
  • This is produced when the sulfur dioxide emitted by the volcano reacts with water in the atmosphere.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The sulfur dioxide from the eruption that makes it into the upper atmosphere reflects heat from the sun and causes temperatures around the world to drop.
    — David Bressan, Forbes, 3 May 2022
  • The idea would be to purposefully inject aerosols like sulfur dioxide—the same stuff that spews from volcanoes—into the stratosphere to help reflect the sun’s light.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The particles causing people to see purple light rays are sulfur dioxide gas, Fowler said.
    — Hannah Dellinger, Houston Chronicle, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Instead, there needs to be a significant amount of sulfur dioxide.
    — Rachel Ramirez and Brandon Miller, CNN, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Around 183 million years ago, there was a perturbation in the carbon cycle, along with extreme volcanism that belched out massive amounts of methane, sulfur dioxide, and mercury.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 28 May 2024
  • This change resulted in a roughly 80% reduction in harmful sulfur dioxide emissions from ships worldwide.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2024

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