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- noun Plural form of
dioxide .
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Examples
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Those convert sulphur and nitrogen dioxides in air into particles that act as seeds to grow water droplets.
Scientists Create Laser to Generate Clouds that Could Trigger Rain on Demand | Impact Lab 2010
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What's in the sludgeBauxite, the raw material from which aluminium is processed, contains a mix of minerals, including aluminium, iron oxides and titanium dioxides.
Hungary toxic sludge spill an 'ecological catastrophe' says government Mark Tran 2010
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The regulation could have an effect on global warming in a couple of ways -- it targets sulfur dioxides, which have a short-term cooling effect, and may force the closure of older coal-fired power plants.
Mason Inman: The Climate Post: Fight Over Tar Sands Pipeline May Lead to Cancellation, "Huge" Consequences Mason Inman 2012
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The Fisk Street and Crawford plants spew millions of tons of pollutants -- including nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxides, and barium -- that cause health impacts like those mentioned above.
Philip Radford: In Chicago, Coal Is the Real Crime Philip Radford 2011
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If you find high carbon emissions, you'll also find high nitrous oxides, sulfur dioxides, particulates, leveled mountains, polluted lakes, and challenged lungs.
Bill Shireman: A Left-Right Energy Solution to Security, Economy, and Environment Bill Shireman 2011
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The regulation could have an effect on global warming in a couple of ways -- it targets sulfur dioxides, which have a short-term cooling effect, and may force the closure of older coal-fired power plants.
Mason Inman: The Climate Post: Fight Over Tar Sands Pipeline May Lead to Cancellation, "Huge" Consequences Mason Inman 2012
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But turn the trash into biochar and experts say harmful carbon dioxides are sealed in, not released into the atmosphere.
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But turn the trash into biochar and experts say harmful carbon dioxides are sealed in, not released into the atmosphere.
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Particulate pollution is the term for a mixture of solid particles and liquid droplets that form either directly from a source, such as construction sites, or smokestacks, or in reactions in the atmosphere of chemicals such as sulfur dioxides and nitrogen oxides that are emitted power plants and automobiles.
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Since CO2 is only one of many pollutants generated, for the clean moniker to be applied to coal, a future generation of coal power plants should also greatly reduce the amount of nitrogen oxides, mercury, sulfur dioxides and particulates.
John Gartner: Clean Coal: Fuel of the Future or a Fallacy? 2009
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