How to Use nitrogen oxide in a Sentence

nitrogen oxide

noun

• Diesels can emit more nitrogen oxide, which is bad for people’s health, but less CO2.
  — David McHugh, The Seattle Times, 2 Oct. 2018
• When combined with nitrogen oxide, the two can react and form the pollutant ozone, or smog.
  — Halle Parker | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 2 Feb. 2021
• The exact impact of nitrogen oxide emissions will depend on the size of someone's kitchen, and whether the cook uses the hood on their stove while cooking.
  — CBS News, 28 Jan. 2022
• The excess nitrogen oxide in the atmosphere could wash away as much as 7 percent of Earth’s ozone layer, too, according to the study.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 31 Dec. 2021
• But on the road, the cars released up to 40 times more nitrogen oxides than U.S. regulations allowed.
  — Maxine Joselow, Scientific American, 17 July 2019
• And that means a more efficient engine and one that produces less nitrogen oxide.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 26 June 2019
• Like sulfur, nitrogen in coal combines with oxygen in the air to form a mixture of nitrogen oxides.
  — Akshat Rathi, Quartz, 23 Oct. 2019
• The air district will limit sales of heating appliances to those that don’t churn out nitrogen oxides.
  — Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Mar. 2023
• During the cold start, his engine spews a large amount of carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and a whole slew of hydrocarbons.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Jan. 2020
• Lebel and his fellow researchers spent time in 53 homes (mostly rentals and Airbnb’s), sealing off the kitchens with plastic sheets and measuring the methane and nitrogen oxide that the stoves released.
  — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2022
• As such, the yacht will produce no emissions, nitrogen oxides, or sulfur oxides.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 31 Aug. 2023
• Trucks are the largest source of nitrogen oxide emissions in California.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2022
• That could produce more local air pollution from nitrogen oxides — or NOx — from small gas plants.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 12 May 2023
• Burning heavy fuel oil, the industry produces 13% of the world’s sulphur emissions and 15% of its nitrogen oxides.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2018
• This basic technology has been around since the 1950s, but has many drawbacks, such as the emission of nitrogen oxide—also a greenhouse gas.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 14 May 2021
• Carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide emissions would go down by more than 15 percent each.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
• Many spent years fighting to close the plant which, with its smokestack next to Interstate 95, has produced pollutants such as nitrogen oxide, lead and mercury for decades.
  — Talia Richman, baltimoresun.com, 21 Sep. 2020
• Acid rain happens when sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides are emitted into the atmosphere and moved by wind and air currents, the EPA's website says.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 17 Feb. 2023
• By the end of the year, the company had exceeded limits on carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides at least seven times.
  — Katrease Stafford, Detroit Free Press, 21 May 2018
• Indeed, the 15 largest container ships alone emit more nitrogen oxide and sulphur oxide pollutants than all the world’s cars combined.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 19 Mar. 2020
• One source is nitrogen oxides, mostly from power plants and engine exhaust.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 4 Dec. 2019
• The target is smog-forming nitrogen oxides (NOx) churned out by appliances run on natural gas.
  — Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Mar. 2023
• The draft rule seeks to rein in nitrogen oxide emissions, which are precursors for harmful particulate matter and ozone.
  — Arianna Skibell, Scientific American, 8 June 2022
• Others, such as nitrogen oxides, contribute to local pollution such as acid rain and smog.
  — Jeffrey Ball, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2020
• At other times, the cars emitted far more nitrogen oxide, a lung irritant that also causes smog, than permitted.
  — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 18 June 2018
• There are two main categories of air pollution: First, there's ground-level ozone, which is a product of nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds that have been exposed to heat and sunlight.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 21 Aug. 2018
• Glass-recycling and asphalt-grinding plants along the neighborhood’s northern edge pump out nitrogen oxide, arsenic and lead.
  — oregonlive, 22 Jan. 2023
• Plastic rain could prove to be a more insidious problem than acid rain, which is a consequence of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 11 June 2020
• But nitrogen oxides contribute to the formation of ground-level ozone, a major pollutant that can be harmful to people.
  — National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• Most of these jet-engine planes are fueled on kerosene, which emits some pollutants, like smog-forming nitrogen oxides, but this fuel burns relatively clean.
  — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024