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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In 1991, the volcano Mount Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines, sending millions of tons of ash and sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere.
    Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 5 Dec. 2018
  • For example, the lead and sulfur dioxide have dropped by double-digit percentages over the last two years.
    Seth Borenstein, The Denver Post, 13 July 2019
  • One is to inject sulfur dioxide or a similar aerosol into the stratosphere to help shade the Earth from more intense sunlight.
    John Fialka, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • Decreases since January were even more abrupt, by 80% in the case of sulfur dioxide downtown.
    Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 5 Apr. 2020
  • The strongest correlation was for a molecular form of sulfur dioxide (SO2), used as an antioxidant and antimicrobial in wine production.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 Apr. 2024
  • These new plants have equipment that better controls pollution from sulfur dioxide and particulates, although not carbon dioxide emissions.
    Andrew S. Erickson, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2021

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