How to Use nitrogen oxide in a Sentence

nitrogen oxide

noun

• The health threats are caused by nitrogen oxide and tiny particles of dust and soot that create haze in the air.
  — Eric Lipton, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Feb. 2018
• When in the presence of sunlight and nitrogen oxide, ozone can form as a byproduct.
  — Tom Skilling, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• Diesels can emit more nitrogen oxide, which is bad for people’s health, but less CO2.
  — David McHugh, The Seattle Times, 2 Oct. 2018
• Its vehicles in the US were found to be emitting up to 40 times the legal limit on nitrogen oxide.
  — Angela Dewan, CNN, 3 Sep. 2017
• 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
• Microbes in the soil digest some of what remains to produce nitrogen oxides, or NOx.
  — Deirdre Lockwood, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2018
• What's more, the exhaust gases contain fewer nasty nitrogen oxides, and the unused air gets put to work.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2018
• The study of on-road performance found that one emitted up to 35 times the allowable amount of toxic nitrogen oxide.
  — Washington Post, 5 May 2018
• 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
• Zatko wanted to measure the release of nitrogen oxides from snow.
  — Jeffrey Brainard, Science | AAAS, 26 Mar. 2018
• 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
• Paul Crutzen first noted the influence of nitrogen oxides on stratospheric ozone in 1970.
  — Smithsonian, 11 Jan. 2017
• 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
• The goal is to reduce nitrogen oxides (NOx) pollution, which contributes to lung-damaging soot and smog.
  — Tim Zorn, Post-Tribune, 19 Jan. 2018
• But, at German insistence, cars can emit double the legal limit of nitrogen oxides and still be approved.
  — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
• Mixing volatile organic compounds, nitrogen oxides and sunlight will make ground-level ozone, which can cause breathing problems in humans.
  — Delphine Farmer, Discover Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
• Sulfur dioxide was predominantly a product of power plants; automobiles were the biggest culprit in nitrogen oxide emissions.
  — Rachel Rothschild, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2015

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024