How to Use carbon dioxide in a Sentence

carbon dioxide

noun

• These ladies can sense carbon dioxide and skin odor and use it to track down a meal (i.e. you).
  — Loren Savini, Allure, 25 July 2024
• At daybreak, the cranks pull the ring back up to the surface to soak up sunlight and carbon dioxide.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Dec. 2023
• The rock reacts with carbon dioxide in the soil and is sequestered.
  — Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 2 Dec. 2024
• When more carbon dioxide is added, the planet gets warmer.
  — David Schechter, Chance Horner, Haley Rush, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2023
• With cask ales, the flavors aren’t masked by gassy carbon dioxide, and can more easily shine through in the glass.
  — Jay R. Brooks, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
• But that capture rate changes if the amount of carbon dioxide doubles.
  — Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
• The group, in a report shared last year, said that in one hour, a single private jet can emit two tons of carbon dioxide.
  — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 21 July 2022
• In the last decade, the growth in humankind’s emissions of carbon dioxide has slowly declined.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 7 June 2024
• Methane is a greenhouse gas which is around 80 times more potent in the short term than carbon dioxide.
  — Samy Magdy, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2022
• The same goes for the key emissions metric of tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e).
  — Caroline Reid, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
• From there, the mix generated carbon dioxide in the gel.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 3 Jan. 2023
• The carbon can then react with the oxygen and release carbon dioxide.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 5 Oct. 2023
• A ton of methane is 83 times worse for the climate than a ton of carbon dioxide, when compared over twenty years.
  — Drew Costley, ajc, 31 July 2022
• Sure, trees can take in and store planet-heating carbon dioxide.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 28 Feb. 2023
• These tiny air sacs take in oxygen and expel carbon dioxide.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
• The 2019 study examined how carbon dioxide and oxygen moved through various mulches in and out of the ground.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• This is a reservoir that absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and locks it away.
  — Laura Smith-Spark, CNN, 5 Nov. 2022
• The process releases large amounts of methane, a gas with 80 times more warming power than carbon dioxide in the short term.
  — Karina Atkins, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2024
• Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that traps about 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide.
  — Lucas Thompson, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2023
• Methane is a greenhouse gas that has up to 80 times the global warming power of carbon dioxide.
  — Christina Manian, Rdn, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Mar. 2023
• Then, global carbon dioxide emissions reached an all-time high in 2019.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Mar. 2023
• The company cures the concrete blocks using carbon dioxide captured from the air or biomass waste.
  — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2022
• As the muffins cook, the baking powder creates carbon dioxide gas bubbles.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 28 June 2023
• These missions will land at the south pole to search for water ice, carbon dioxide ice – also known as dry ice – and methane in an ice form.
  — Jeffrey Gillis-Davis, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2024
• The increase in carbon dioxide concentration over the past few decades has raised it to levels not seen over the past million years.
  — Don Lincoln, CNN, 13 Jan. 2023
• In the summer months, leaves are green because of chlorophyll, the pigment that allows plants to make food from carbon dioxide and water.
  — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 16 Sep. 2022
• Slower ships burn less fuel and emit less carbon dioxide.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
• In the process, waste carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere.
  — Wired, 10 Aug. 2022
• Once the ground thaws, microbes in the soil become active and consume the newly available carbon, releasing it into the atmosphere as methane and carbon dioxide.
  — Barbara Moran, NPR, 10 Dec. 2024
• Methane comes from livestock, landfills, and leaking oil and gas infrastructure and is an even more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 19 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Jan 2025