gases

Example Sentences

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Fuel is injected into the compressed air, and hot exhaust gases exit the back, producing powerful thrust.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

The problem with this way of thinking is that each of us contributes an infinitesimally small drop in the bucket of global greenhouse gases.

From Slate • May 15, 2026

During especially powerful events, these particles collide with atmospheric gases and create carbon 14 compounds that spread around the globe and become trapped inside living organisms.

From Science Daily • May 14, 2026

A former senior executive at Suncor Energy, Martha Hall Findlay, said in a newspaper essay the Pathways project would add significant costs, and that the Alberta oilsands accounts for 0.16% of global greenhouse gases.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

He had tried to communicate that the national interest did not lie in simply continuing atomic bomb work, and even suggested banning atomic weapons by international convention “just like poison gases after the last war.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik