How to Use sulfur dioxide in a Sentence

sulfur dioxide

noun
  • At one time the smelters in Sudbury were the largest point source of sulfur dioxide in the world.
    Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The grass and plants were quickly killed off by sulfur dioxide.
    Amanda Jackson, CNN, 23 May 2018
  • How could anyone know how much sulfur dioxide is in the ash?
    Peter Landers, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The amount of acid rain depends on the concentration of sulfur dioxide in the air, Guy said.
    Faith Karimi, CNN, 9 May 2018
  • Since then, more than 20 vents have opened in the ground that have released lava, sulfur dioxide and steam.
    Amy Lieu, Fox News, 25 May 2018
  • The volcano has opened more than 20 vents in the ground that have released lava, sulfur dioxide and steam.
    Audrey McAvoy, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 May 2018
  • The plan was for the balloons, filled with helium and a small amount of sulfur dioxide, to float high into the stratosphere.
    Laura Paddison, CNN, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Its smokestacks belch out the worst sulfur dioxide pollution in the world.
    NBC News, 28 Nov. 2021
  • The co-founders picked up shop and tried it again in Nevada, grilling fungicide in a parking lot to create the sulfur dioxide gas.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 11 June 2024
  • The other three, ozone, lead and sulfur dioxide, did decline.
    Seth Borenstein, The Denver Post, 13 July 2019
  • The guides told them the sulfur dioxide and other gases on the island turn acidic when mixed with their saliva, and gave them candies to suck.
    Nick Perry, Twin Cities, 14 Dec. 2019
  • The eruption would have spewed greenhouse gases and sulfur dioxide, which can cause acid rain.
    Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 30 Sep. 2019
  • The eruption led to school closures due to high levels of sulfur dioxide, volcanic gas.
    Adam K. Raymond, Daily Intelligencer, 17 May 2018
  • Pinatubo released 15 Tg, or about 38 times more sulfur dioxide.
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The use of sulfur dioxide has been a difficult issue in the natural wine world.
    Eric Asimov, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Added sulfites are a third-rail type of issue in wine, as sulfur dioxide helps prevent all kinds of spoilage in bottle.
    Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Residents were ordered to flee amid threats of fires and high levels of sulfur dioxide gas.
    Laris Karklis, Washington Post, 7 May 2018
  • Some of them had been close to the fire at the Mishraq sulfur mine outside Mosul, thought to be the largest release of sulfur dioxide ever caused by humans.
    New York Times, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Gabbard warned that, in some ways, the threat from the sulfur dioxide gas could be more dangerous than the lava flows, which had stopped in places after the eruption.
    BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2018
  • In Europe, sulfur dioxide emissions fell by 84 percent and in the U.S. by 90 percent.
    Hannah Ritchie, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Fritzsche doesn’t add anything else to his wines besides a judicious amount of sulfur dioxide.
    Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Hot steam — and noxious sulfur dioxide gases — have risen from the vents, before magma broke through and splattered into the air.
    Amy B Wang, Washington Post, 20 May 2018
  • Hot steam - and noxious sulfur dioxide gases - have risen from the vents, before magma broke through and splattered into the air.
    Amy B Wang, ajc, 20 May 2018
  • But the residents who were forced to evacuate now face a new threat: the sulfur dioxide gas that the volcano is releasing into the air.
    Lyndsey Matthews, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2018
  • One common threat is the release of sulfur dioxide gas from deep underground.
    Umair Irfan, Vox, 11 May 2018
  • The most impactful changes for the climate turn out to be sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides.
    Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2020
  • The credit is supposed to represent the cooling effect that sulfur dioxide might have in the stratosphere.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Each balloon carries less than 10 grams of sulfur dioxide.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 24 Feb. 2023
  • But sulfur dioxide might also lead to acid rain, worsen the Antarctic ozone hole, or have other unforeseen consequences.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 12 Aug. 2024
  • As damage to forests and lakes worsened across Europe, countries signed international agreements starting in the 1980s to cut their sulfur dioxide emissions.
    Alexander E. Gates, The Conversation, 23 Sep. 2024

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