How to Use carbon dioxide in a Sentence

carbon dioxide

noun

• Peat bogs, for example, sequester large amounts of the carbon dioxide and methane that are driving climate change.
  — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Oct. 2022
• 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
• There are also signatures of water, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 19 Sep. 2022
• The story is similar — the loss of habitat and the continuing release of carbon dioxide and methane from the soil.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Oct. 2022
• So while carbon dioxide does help plants grow, the extra carbon in the atmosphere has other effects that may eventually outweigh the benefits.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2024
• The carbon dioxide is injected underground into rock formations, usually at depths of one kilometer or more.
  — Marianna Cerini, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2022
• That’s how Webb detected carbon dioxide on a planet and even how Webb detected water on an exoplanet.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 19 Sep. 2022
• If completed, the pipeline is estimated to pour 26 coal plants worth of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2022
• Burning fossil fuels for energy releases molecules into the air known as greenhouse gases, the most common of which is carbon dioxide.
  — Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 26 Oct. 2024
• Species spiraling into oblivion, a few extra parts per million of carbon dioxide in the air, sea life gobbling up microplastics—many of our era's ecological calamities are hard to see with unaided eyes.
  — Joshua Sokol, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2022
• Lastly, planning the Halloween carefully can help minimize food waste and methane emissions, which are about 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide, the experts said.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024