How to Use sulfur dioxide in a Sentence

sulfur dioxide

noun

• At one time the smelters in Sudbury were the largest point source of sulfur dioxide in the world.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Sep. 2020
• The grass and plants were quickly killed off by sulfur dioxide.
  — Amanda Jackson, CNN, 23 May 2018
• How could anyone know how much sulfur dioxide is in the ash?
  — Peter Landers, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022
• The amount of acid rain depends on the concentration of sulfur dioxide in the air, Guy said.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 9 May 2018
• Since then, more than 20 vents have opened in the ground that have released lava, sulfur dioxide and steam.
  — Amy Lieu, Fox News, 25 May 2018
• The volcano has opened more than 20 vents in the ground that have released lava, sulfur dioxide and steam.
  — Audrey McAvoy, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 May 2018
• The plan was for the balloons, filled with helium and a small amount of sulfur dioxide, to float high into the stratosphere.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 12 Feb. 2023
• Its smokestacks belch out the worst sulfur dioxide pollution in the world.
  — NBC News, 28 Nov. 2021
• The co-founders picked up shop and tried it again in Nevada, grilling fungicide in a parking lot to create the sulfur dioxide gas.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 11 June 2024
• The other three, ozone, lead and sulfur dioxide, did decline.
  — Seth Borenstein, The Denver Post, 13 July 2019
• The guides told them the sulfur dioxide and other gases on the island turn acidic when mixed with their saliva, and gave them candies to suck.
  — Nick Perry, Twin Cities, 14 Dec. 2019
• The eruption would have spewed greenhouse gases and sulfur dioxide, which can cause acid rain.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 30 Sep. 2019
• The eruption led to school closures due to high levels of sulfur dioxide, volcanic gas.
  — Adam K. Raymond, Daily Intelligencer, 17 May 2018
• Pinatubo released 15 Tg, or about 38 times more sulfur dioxide.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2022
• The use of sulfur dioxide has been a difficult issue in the natural wine world.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2020
• Added sulfites are a third-rail type of issue in wine, as sulfur dioxide helps prevent all kinds of spoilage in bottle.
  — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
• Residents were ordered to flee amid threats of fires and high levels of sulfur dioxide gas.
  — Laris Karklis, Washington Post, 7 May 2018
• Some of them had been close to the fire at the Mishraq sulfur mine outside Mosul, thought to be the largest release of sulfur dioxide ever caused by humans.
  — New York Times, 11 Jan. 2022
• Gabbard warned that, in some ways, the threat from the sulfur dioxide gas could be more dangerous than the lava flows, which had stopped in places after the eruption.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2018
• In Europe, sulfur dioxide emissions fell by 84 percent and in the U.S. by 90 percent.
  — Hannah Ritchie, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2023
• The plant sent out more than 1,300 pounds of sulfur dioxide, which exceeded its permit limits.
  — Jen Kirby, Daily Intelligencer, 1 Sep. 2017
• Fritzsche doesn’t add anything else to his wines besides a judicious amount of sulfur dioxide.
  — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 12 Apr. 2022
• Hot steam - and noxious sulfur dioxide gases - have risen from the vents, before magma broke through and splattered into the air.
  — Amy B Wang, ajc, 20 May 2018
• Hot steam — and noxious sulfur dioxide gases — have risen from the vents, before magma broke through and splattered into the air.
  — Amy B Wang, Washington Post, 20 May 2018
• But the residents who were forced to evacuate now face a new threat: the sulfur dioxide gas that the volcano is releasing into the air.
  — Lyndsey Matthews, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2018
• One common threat is the release of sulfur dioxide gas from deep underground.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 11 May 2018
• The most impactful changes for the climate turn out to be sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2020
• The credit is supposed to represent the cooling effect that sulfur dioxide might have in the stratosphere.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 24 Feb. 2023
• These regions, which have rapidly industrialized over the past four decades, have seen a two- to fourfold increase in sulfur dioxide and black carbon emissions since the 1970s.
  — Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2016
• Wildfire smoke contains chemicals like carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and even lead.
  — Ian Rose, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024