How to Use fly ash in a Sentence

fly ash

noun

• Use less lime and replace it with fly ash, a by-product of burning coal.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2018
• The dust from the mine and the coal fly ash from the thermal power plant blanketed everything.
  — Ishan Kukreti, Quartz, 5 Nov. 2021
• Scientists drilling ice cores out of Greenland have found lead from fly ash, a byproduct of coal combustion, dating back to the era.
  — Gavathri Vaidyanathan, Discover Magazine, 2 Oct. 2014
• There was danger in the fly ash, or the powderlike particles produced when burning coal, dirtying the air.
  — Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 24 Sep. 2017
• Rice husk ash is more elastic and may be feasible in higher percentages than fly ash.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 4 Nov. 2019
• The fly ash, a byproduct of coal combustion, was mixed with soil to create mini-islands in the lake that allow water to permeate.
  — Emily Wang Fujiyama, ajc, 15 Nov. 2022
• The kitchen countertops are Squak Mountain Stone, a material made of cement, fly ash, glass dust and paper.
  — Julie Lasky, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
• Iron flecks in coal fly ash, for example, are amorphous globs that dissolve more easily than the crystals found in mineral dust.
  — Emily Underwood, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
• There are several types of coal ash, including fly ash, which is fine and powdery, bottom ash which is heavy and coarse, and boiler slag, which is melted bottom ash.
  — Isabelle Chapman, CNN, 7 Dec. 2021
• Tiny black bits of fly ash — a byproduct of burning coal and oil — drifted into the lake from rapidly industrializing cities.
  — Emily Wright, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
• Adani Group said salinity ingress was a local phenomenon and that its power plant used technology to ensure that there was no stray fly ash.
  — Forbes Wealth Team, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• Silicon oxides and aluminum oxides are abundant in slag and fly ash, and they are found in clay, discarded glass and even agricultural by-products.
  — M. Mitchell Waldrop, Discover Magazine, 26 Nov. 2022
• At concrete batch plants, respirable crystalline silica can come from cement and fly ash, a powder used in producing cement.
  — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Sep. 2021
• Inside the flues, smoke that’s thick with fly ash and chemicals gets scrubbed and passed through a filtration facility called a bag house before finally being released.
  — Curbed, 12 Aug. 2022
• As the researchers write in the paper: The char is remarkably similar to modern coal fly ash, which can create toxic aquatic conditions when released as slurries.
  — Eliza Strickland, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2011
• Until recently, the industry was finding economies in recycling fly ash and slag — waste products from coal plants, which are now growing scarce, and steel plants, which are concentrated in China.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 4 Dec. 2021
• Ron Bledsoe, a truck driver who now struggles to breathe with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, said supervisors made a big deal about safety glasses and steel-toed boots but downplayed the fly ash swirling around them.
  — Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2019
• As for the reservoir, Compton said there have been discussions of using fly ash, a byproduct of coal-burning power plants, which would eventually harden and prevent the reservoir from filling with water again.
  — Curt Anderson, orlandosentinel.com, 6 Apr. 2021
• Others have replaced cement in concrete partly with construction and industrial waste, mining slag, and fly ash.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 May 2023
• Lunar regolith has chemical similarities to fly ash, which makes geopolymers an attractive option for building stuff on the moon.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 22 May 2020
• Another useful marker are tiny spheroidal carbonaceous particles (SCPs), a type of tough fly ash only produced by the high-temperature burning of coal or heavy oil.
  — Damian Carrington, WIRED, 14 Jan. 2023
• In about 1950, the Crawford core samples show a surge in radioactive plutonium from nuclear testing and sharp rises in heavy metals, fly ash from burning fossil fuels and evidence of acid rain and steadily rising temperatures.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 21 June 2023
• The idea that transportation ruled out full removal of the coal ash in both ponds was questioned by multiple community members who pointed out that fly ash, a similar type of coal combustion residual, is already regularly shipped from the facility.
  — Sylvia Goodman, chicagotribune.com, 16 Dec. 2021
• Concrete and coal fly ash aren't typically grouped together, but the both represent severe environmental problems.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 12 July 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024