How to Use carbon dioxide in a Sentence

carbon dioxide

noun
  • The rock reacts with carbon dioxide in the soil and is sequestered.
    Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 2 Dec. 2024
  • In the process, waste carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere.
    Wired, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The company cures the concrete blocks using carbon dioxide captured from the air or biomass waste.
    Evan Halper, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2022
  • While critics may label him a skeptic, his acknowledgment of carbon dioxide’s role in global warming distinguishes him from outright deniers.
    Robert Rapier, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Adding in this biogenic limestone can make concrete carbon neutral, and potentially carbon negative, by pulling carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2022
  • And concerningly, the region’s tundra has transitioned from being a sink for carbon to a source of emissions as permafrost thaws, releasing carbon dioxide and methane.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
  • The parks not only protect flora and fauna but also act as natural carbon sinks – storing carbon dioxide emitted into the air and reducing the effects of global warming.
    Wanjohi Kabukuru, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2022
  • These ladies can sense carbon dioxide and skin odor and use it to track down a meal (i.e. you).
    Loren Savini, Allure, 25 July 2024
  • At daybreak, the cranks pull the ring back up to the surface to soak up sunlight and carbon dioxide.
    IEEE Spectrum, 21 Dec. 2023
  • When more carbon dioxide is added, the planet gets warmer.
    David Schechter, Chance Horner, Haley Rush, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2023
  • With cask ales, the flavors aren’t masked by gassy carbon dioxide, and can more easily shine through in the glass.
    Jay R. Brooks, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
  • But that capture rate changes if the amount of carbon dioxide doubles.
    Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
  • In the last decade, the growth in humankind’s emissions of carbon dioxide has slowly declined.
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 7 June 2024
  • Methane is a greenhouse gas which is around 80 times more potent in the short term than carbon dioxide.
    Samy Magdy, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The same goes for the key emissions metric of tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e).
    Caroline Reid, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
  • From there, the mix generated carbon dioxide in the gel.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The carbon can then react with the oxygen and release carbon dioxide.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Sure, trees can take in and store planet-heating carbon dioxide.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 28 Feb. 2023
  • These tiny air sacs take in oxygen and expel carbon dioxide.
    Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The 2019 study examined how carbon dioxide and oxygen moved through various mulches in and out of the ground.
    Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • This is a reservoir that absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and locks it away.
    Laura Smith-Spark, CNN, 5 Nov. 2022
  • The process releases large amounts of methane, a gas with 80 times more warming power than carbon dioxide in the short term.
    Karina Atkins, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that traps about 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide.
    Lucas Thompson, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Methane is a greenhouse gas that has up to 80 times the global warming power of carbon dioxide.
    Christina Manian, Rdn, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Then, global carbon dioxide emissions reached an all-time high in 2019.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Mar. 2023
  • As the muffins cook, the baking powder creates carbon dioxide gas bubbles.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 28 June 2023
  • These missions will land at the south pole to search for water ice, carbon dioxide ice – also known as dry ice – and methane in an ice form.
    Jeffrey Gillis-Davis, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The increase in carbon dioxide concentration over the past few decades has raised it to levels not seen over the past million years.
    Don Lincoln, CNN, 13 Jan. 2023
  • In the summer months, leaves are green because of chlorophyll, the pigment that allows plants to make food from carbon dioxide and water.
    Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Slower ships burn less fuel and emit less carbon dioxide.
    William Booth, Washington Post, 3 July 2023

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