How to Use fly ash in a Sentence

fly ash

noun
  • The amount of fly ash increased eightfold in less than five years.
    Emily Wright, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
  • Use less lime and replace it with fly ash, a by-product of burning coal.
    IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2018
  • The dust from the mine and the coal fly ash from the thermal power plant blanketed everything.
    Ishan Kukreti, Quartz, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Removal of fly ash from silos will begin the week of July 24.
    Linda Gandee, cleveland, 17 July 2023
  • Scientists drilling ice cores out of Greenland have found lead from fly ash, a byproduct of coal combustion, dating back to the era.
    Gavathri Vaidyanathan, Discover Magazine, 2 Oct. 2014
  • There was danger in the fly ash, or the powderlike particles produced when burning coal, dirtying the air.
    Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 24 Sep. 2017
  • Rice husk ash is more elastic and may be feasible in higher percentages than fly ash.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 4 Nov. 2019
  • The fly ash, a byproduct of coal combustion, was mixed with soil to create mini-islands in the lake that allow water to permeate.
    Emily Wang Fujiyama, ajc, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The kitchen countertops are Squak Mountain Stone, a material made of cement, fly ash, glass dust and paper.
    Julie Lasky, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Iron flecks in coal fly ash, for example, are amorphous globs that dissolve more easily than the crystals found in mineral dust.
    Emily Underwood, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
  • There are several types of coal ash, including fly ash, which is fine and powdery, bottom ash which is heavy and coarse, and boiler slag, which is melted bottom ash.
    Isabelle Chapman, CNN, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Tiny black bits of fly ash — a byproduct of burning coal and oil — drifted into the lake from rapidly industrializing cities.
    Emily Wright, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
  • Adani Group said salinity ingress was a local phenomenon and that its power plant used technology to ensure that there was no stray fly ash.
    Forbes Wealth Team, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Silicon oxides and aluminum oxides are abundant in slag and fly ash, and they are found in clay, discarded glass and even agricultural by-products.
    M. Mitchell Waldrop, Discover Magazine, 26 Nov. 2022
  • At concrete batch plants, respirable crystalline silica can come from cement and fly ash, a powder used in producing cement.
    Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Inside the flues, smoke that’s thick with fly ash and chemicals gets scrubbed and passed through a filtration facility called a bag house before finally being released.
    Curbed, 12 Aug. 2022
  • As the researchers write in the paper: The char is remarkably similar to modern coal fly ash, which can create toxic aquatic conditions when released as slurries.
    Eliza Strickland, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2011
  • Until recently, the industry was finding economies in recycling fly ash and slag — waste products from coal plants, which are now growing scarce, and steel plants, which are concentrated in China.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 4 Dec. 2021
  • Ron Bledsoe, a truck driver who now struggles to breathe with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, said supervisors made a big deal about safety glasses and steel-toed boots but downplayed the fly ash swirling around them.
    Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2019
  • As for the reservoir, Compton said there have been discussions of using fly ash, a byproduct of coal-burning power plants, which would eventually harden and prevent the reservoir from filling with water again.
    Curt Anderson, orlandosentinel.com, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Others have replaced cement in concrete partly with construction and industrial waste, mining slag, and fly ash.
    IEEE Spectrum, 8 May 2023
  • Lunar regolith has chemical similarities to fly ash, which makes geopolymers an attractive option for building stuff on the moon.
    Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 22 May 2020
  • Another useful marker are tiny spheroidal carbonaceous particles (SCPs), a type of tough fly ash only produced by the high-temperature burning of coal or heavy oil.
    Damian Carrington, WIRED, 14 Jan. 2023
  • In about 1950, the Crawford core samples show a surge in radioactive plutonium from nuclear testing and sharp rises in heavy metals, fly ash from burning fossil fuels and evidence of acid rain and steadily rising temperatures.
    Peter Weber, The Week, 21 June 2023
  • The idea that transportation ruled out full removal of the coal ash in both ponds was questioned by multiple community members who pointed out that fly ash, a similar type of coal combustion residual, is already regularly shipped from the facility.
    Sylvia Goodman, chicagotribune.com, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Concrete and coal fly ash aren't typically grouped together, but the both represent severe environmental problems.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 12 July 2018

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