How to Use vinyl chloride in a Sentence

vinyl chloride

noun

• Out of the 11 dangerous chemicals spilled in the crash, the one of most concern is vinyl chloride.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 24 Feb. 2023
• More than 5 tons of vinyl chloride, en route to a plant that makes plastic for PVC flooring, was released and burned.
  — Emily Le Coz, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
• Nearly 1 million pounds of vinyl chloride were on this train.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2023
• Workers used small charges to blow a tiny hole in five rail cars carrying vinyl chloride.
  — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 8 Feb. 2023
• The burning of vinyl chloride can release dioxins into the air.
  — Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 31 Mar. 2023
• First of all, air monitoring of vinyl chloride may not be useful by now.
  — Jill Neimark, STAT, 21 Feb. 2023
• When inhaled, vinyl chloride can cause cancer, according to the EPA.
  — Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 31 Aug. 2020
• The Ohio train that derailed last month was carrying vinyl chloride, a highly flammable and volatile substance used to make hard plastic resin.
  — Ashley Soebroto, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
• At least five of these rail cars carried vinyl chloride, a toxic chemical known to cause rare forms of liver, brain and lung cancers.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• The board also delved into why the decision to deliberately vent and burn the vinyl chloride was flawed.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 26 June 2024
• Three days later, the railroad burned vinyl chloride from five tanker cars to avert a potential explosion.
  — Natalie Andrews, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
• Westlake’s annual vinyl chloride emissions during that time were at least 28 times that of the others.
  — Kathleen Flynn, ProPublica, 20 May 2022
• Scientists have known for decades that high doses of vinyl chloride can cause liver cancer.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 16 Feb. 2023
• Dozens of the Norfolk Southern train's cars piled up the night of Feb. 3 in a fiery blaze, prompting evacuations and, two days later, the release into the air of vinyl chloride from five rail cars.
  — Justine McDaniel, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Feb. 2023
• The spill forced hundreds of nearby residents out of their homes and sparked fears, as five tankers carried vinyl chloride, which posed serious health risks.
  — Alex Presha, ABC News, 2 Feb. 2024
• Typically, vinyl chloride is only found in large amounts in and around the factories that produce it.
  — Mac Stone, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023
• Schade said people who live near facilities involved in the production of vinyl chloride face those risks and more.
  — Emily Le Coz, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2023
• Breathing high levels of vinyl chloride can cause dizziness or sleepiness.
  — Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 16 Feb. 2023
• In this case, Gay said, the team was looking for chloride, because train cars containing vinyl chloride had been set on fire to avert a larger explosion.
  — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2024
• Four of the rail cars were carrying vinyl chloride, and at least one was emitting the chemical via a safety release device, Graham said.
  — Andrea Salcedo, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2023
• Three days after the crash, the authorities, fearing that the five tank cars containing vinyl chloride might explode, released and burned the cars’ contents.
  — Peter Eavis, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2024
• Nearby residents were evacuated while small holes were punched in the railcars so the vinyl chloride could be channeled into a trench where it was burned.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023
• Plastics are made from by-products of oil and gas refining; many of the chemicals involved, such as benzene and vinyl chloride, are carcinogens.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Federal agencies maintain that the air and water are safe despite the release of vinyl chloride that was meant to prevent a major explosion from the train's wreckage.
  — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2023
• Norfolk Southern's Robert Wood said even if there wasn't a chemical reaction, officials were still concerned that the tank cars could fail and release the vinyl chloride.
  — Josh Funk, ajc, 23 June 2023
• The company's general manager, Howard Yang, told the outlet that they were forced to close for a week due to the release of vinyl chloride, a carcinogenic chemical onboard the train.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2023
• Worried about an uncontrolled blast, officials released and burned toxic vinyl chloride from five rail cars, sending flames and black smoke into the sky.
  — Matthew Daly and Farnoush Amiri, The Enquirer, 25 Feb. 2023
• Two of five train cars believed to be carrying vinyl chloride were likely to have been filled with the gas, and temperature changes could have set it off, officials said at the news conference.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2023
• If vinyl chloride gets into soil or surface water, most of it evaporates into the air quickly, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
  — Mac Stone, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023
• Then, that fire ultimately prompted the railway and its contractors to push for the unusual step of releasing and burning vinyl chloride from five train cars.
  — Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 25 June 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024