How to Use carbon dioxide in a Sentence

carbon dioxide

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Slower ships burn less fuel and emit less carbon dioxide.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
• Unlike our water frost at home, Mars’s carbon dioxide frost doesn’t melt.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2023
• The basalt then reacts with rainwater to trap carbon dioxide in the air as a bicarbonate.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 7 Dec. 2023
• But more trees can pull greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2024
• The company will use the funds to devote more resources to researching food and feed products that can be made of carbon dioxide.
  — Seamus Webster, Fortune Europe, 17 July 2024
• Pollutants can block the opening that plants use to take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen.
  — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 29 June 2023
• In the worst case, this flaw could lead to a malfunction that would allow dangerous amounts of carbon dioxide to build up in the capsule’s air supply.
  — Michael Greshko, Scientific American, 18 Jan. 2024
• But today, the thin air is almost entirely made up of carbon dioxide.
  — Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2022
• Gnats are attracted to carbon dioxide, moisture, body heat and odor.
  — The Arizona Republic, 23 Apr. 2024
• Yet the threat to our planet caused by methane, which is more potent at trapping heat than carbon dioxide, impacts us all.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 6 May 2024
• The idea of using technology to suck carbon dioxide from the sky has gone from science fiction to big business.
  — Brad Plumer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• The resulting process produces carbon dioxide that is captured and stored for other uses.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2024
• With less carbon dioxide available for use in photosynthesis, the thinking goes, the trees developed these unique cellular structures to hold on to as much of it as possible.
  — Michael Franco, New Atlas, 31 July 2024

Last Updated: 21 Sep 2024