How to Use biomass in a Sentence

biomass

noun

• The other burns lithic landscapes, or fossilized biomass.
  — Stephen Pyne, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2020
• Extra plant life is a problem because each fall as the plants die, all that added weight and biomass becomes fuel for wildfires.
  — Greg Stanley, Star Tribune, 26 Dec. 2020
• Their analysis concludes that the amount of biomass required would leave the world with inadequate arable land to grow food.
  — Scientific American, 17 Nov. 2020
• And the crossover point is slightly later if water weight is included in the biomass calculations.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 9 Dec. 2020
• But the amount of coal energy didn’t exceed the amount of biomass energy until 1888.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2020
• With waste, anthropogenic mass began outweighing biomass in 2013, plus or minus five years.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 9 Dec. 2020
• Humanmade mass finally exceeded Earth’s total living biomass this year—give or take 6 years.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 9 Dec. 2020
• Lead author Emily Elhacham says the biggest uncertainty lies in the current estimate of plant biomass.
  — Maddie Stone, Environment, 9 Dec. 2020
• The light resembles sunlight at its peak level, which delays flowering of herbs and allows the plant to focus its energy into fast biomass development.
  — Kate Peters, Popular Mechanics, 12 Nov. 2020
• These creatures, in spite of being prolific enough to make up half of the biomass in nutrient-poor coastal waters, were completely new to science as of 2007.
  — Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American, 11 Nov. 2020
• In addition, since the first agricultural revolution, humans have cut the world's plant biomass in half, through land-use changes such as agriculture and deforestation.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2020
• To reach this number, a team of scientists pulled together previous estimates of biomass and supplemented it with satellite data to track how global vegetation has changed.
  — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2020
• Then, too, big trees have lots of biomass in the form of limbs.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2022
• The biomass of the world’s poultry is three times that of all the wild birds combined.
  — Boyce Upholt, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2022
• The index is based on the bloom’s biomass — the amount of algae — during the peak 30 days of the bloom.
  — cleveland, 30 June 2022
• Wheat, rice and maize are likely the grasses with the highest biomass in the world.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2022
• For sheer biomass, nothing in the plant kingdom beats a tree.
  — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
• The spinach grown next to one of the two exhaust vents on the roof had four times the biomass of spinach grown next to a control fan.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 15 Nov. 2022
• The mansion uses spring water from the area and a biomass boiler to heat the home.
  — Dana Givens, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2022
• The mission aims to track changes in biomass over time to learn more about the carbon cycle.
  — Popular Mechanics, 22 Dec. 2022
• The biomass of housecats is about double that of African elephants and four times that of moose.
  — Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 27 Feb. 2023
• The extent of the biomass is to me at least unexpected.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 13 Jan. 2022
• Pigs, which can also carry the flu, make up even more biomass.
  — Boyce Upholt, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2022
• The biomass industry says the current rules make sense.
  — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2021
• In woodlands, the number of arthropod species had dropped by more than a third, and biomass by forty per cent.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
• Among marine mammals, baleen whales account for more than half of the biomass.
  — Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 27 Feb. 2023
• On land, soils form the largest carbon sink, even larger than the biomass of all forests put together.
  — Emanuela Barbiroglio, Forbes, 4 May 2021
• There is a higher $2,000 credit limit for heat pumps and biomass stoves.
  — Ashlea Ebeling, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2022
• The current owners have done much to upgrade the estate for the 21st century, adding high-tech features such as solar panels and a biomass energy system.
  — Laura Euler For Dirt.com, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2021
• The problem with cannabis trim The THC oil that fills vape pens is extracted from biomass, plant material made up of lower potency leaves and stalks left after harvest, moldy flower and even high-quality buds that sit too long.
  — Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2024

Last Updated: 6 Sep 2024