emissions
Example Sentences
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Nationwide, sulfur-dioxide emissions have plunged over decades as coal plants switched to natural gas, added scrubbers or closed entirely.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
Although the instrument was not specifically designed to study lightning, it can detect microwave emissions from nearby storms.
From Science Daily • May 21, 2026
They said the wildfire released carbon equivalent to 85% of the average annual emissions from fires across the UK from 2001 to 2021.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
At one coal-burning unit, emissions for mercury, nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide were well under permitted levels, according to hourly and 24-hour measurements on a computer screen.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
Tellingly, Oliphant detected proton emissions even from a clean steel target, which should have been all but inert.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
