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
• How could anyone know how much sulfur dioxide is in the ash?
  — Peter Landers, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022
• 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
• Pinatubo released 15 Tg, or about 38 times more sulfur dioxide.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• For some, the eruption might cut down on some travel time, even if there is more vog, or volcanic smog caused by higher sulfur dioxide emissions.
  — Caleb Jones, Chicago Tribune, 28 Nov. 2022
• Her team now wants to see how anthropogenic emissions, like sulfur dioxide, affect the ability of plants to seed clouds.
  — WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023
• This is produced when the sulfur dioxide emitted by the volcano reacts with water in the atmosphere.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
• The sulfur dioxide from the eruption that makes it into the upper atmosphere reflects heat from the sun and causes temperatures around the world to drop.
  — David Bressan, Forbes, 3 May 2022
• The idea would be to purposefully inject aerosols like sulfur dioxide—the same stuff that spews from volcanoes—into the stratosphere to help reflect the sun’s light.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
• Instead, there needs to be a significant amount of sulfur dioxide.
  — Rachel Ramirez and Brandon Miller, CNN, 17 Jan. 2022
• Volcanic eruptions can release enormous amounts of sulfur dioxide and aerosols that, in large enough quantities, can cool the planet and work to snuff out a La Niña pattern.
  — Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2022
• Eventually, the gas condenses and freezes in a thick layer of sulfur dioxide ice on Io's surface.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 Oct. 2020
• Natural gas is low in sulfur dioxide, so those emissions drop by roughly a quarter.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 12 Apr. 2023
• As such, there is no addition of sugar or sulfur dioxide, and the product is re-fermented in the bottle for several months.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
• The Spruce plant also emits thousands of tons of harmful compounds, such as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, according to the EPA.
  — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Apr. 2022
• Scientists think sulfurous compounds such as sulfur dioxide might have played a key role on early Earth that eventually paved the way for life to form.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
• Particles like sulfur dioxide, which are emitted from coal mines, form aerosols that linger in the atmosphere and reflect some of the sun’s energy back into space.
  — Claire Bugos, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Aug. 2020
• Eruptions like that of Mount Pinatubo put lots of reflective sulfur dioxide aerosols into the stratosphere, and these reflect sunlight back into space.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 22 Sep. 2022
• For instance, the agency used to measure sulfur dioxide, a byproduct of burning oil and coal, using 24-hour averages.
  — ProPublica, 13 July 2021
• Frigidaire’s products relied on sulfur dioxide, a toxic gas that could cause nausea, vomiting, stomach pain and damage to the lungs.
  — Steven Johnson, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023
• The only downside is that the technique requires releasing insane amounts of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere above the poles.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 20 Sep. 2022
• Plumes of volcanic gas, including sulfur dioxide, rise into the air, and delicate strands of volcanic glass, called Pele’s hair, float downwind.
  — David Culver, CNN, 5 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024