How to Use dioxide in a Sentence

dioxide

noun

• There’s that ‘somebody lit a match on fire’ sulphur dioxide smell.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 18 Apr. 2023
• Chlorine dioxide will help get rid of the new virus from China.
  — Arijeta Lajka, The Denver Post, 29 Feb. 2020
• Carbon dioxide hangs around in the atmosphere for a long time.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• Carbon dioxide does not dissipate or break down and stays put for hundreds of years.
  — Birnur Aral, Ph.d., Good Housekeeping, 27 May 2021
• Carbon dioxide checks in classes full of students can show if enough fresh air is getting in.
  — Corbett Smith, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2020
• The metallic taste of the sulphur dioxide lingers and irritates the eyes and throat.
  — Stephanie Elam, CNN, 22 May 2018
• Carbon dioxide leaves no such residue and is, in fact, more efficient in pulling the oil out of the cannabis hemp plant.
  — Michael Wright | For Cbdfx, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 July 2022
• Sulfur dioxide in the stratosphere is what could cool the planet (or at least a hemisphere).
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2022
• Sulfur dioxide is a pungent gas that reacts with oxygen and water to form vog.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 1 Dec. 2022
• The fish are placed into a bath with carbon-dioxide in the water, which enables the staff to handle them.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2022
• Now that forest is on fire, and the offsets have turned into carbon-dioxide emissions.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 28 July 2021
• Carbon dioxide has caused about 50% more warming than methane.
  — Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2022
• With sand, the more carbonate there is to produce carbon-dioxide gas, the greater the acoustic shift.
  — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2019
• Some even suggested that the streaks were caused by seasonal carbon-dioxide frost.
  — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 19 June 2018
• One reason offered for the ban is to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions.
  — Steve Milloy, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2019
• Carbon dioxide released in the atmosphere stays present for thousands of years.
  — Frank Van Gansbeke, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
• Carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels is the main driver of climate change.
  — New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021
• Carbon dioxide dissolves in seawater and makes the ocean more acidic, which poses a threat to coral and other sea life.
  — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2021
• Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere haven’t been this high in 2 million years.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2021
• Far from slowing down, the Earth's carbon dioxide crisis appears to be speeding up.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 26 June 2017
• Climate change caused by carbon dioxide is assumed by the authors to be a global malady in need of a cure—their tax cure.
  — WSJ, 19 Mar. 2017
• And that means more smoke, and longer exposure to gasses like carbon monoxide and dioxide, benzene, formaldehyde, and ozone.
  — Wired, 28 July 2022
• For some, the eruption might cut down on some travel time, even if there is more volcanic smog caused by higher sulfur-dioxide emissions.
  — Caleb Jones, ajc, 29 Nov. 2022
• What is in fact added is potassium metabisulphite or forms of sulphur dioxide, and the text was edited to better reflect this.
  — Bruce Palling, Newsweek, 7 July 2014
• Carbon dioxide is also used to stun livestock before they are slaughtered, as well as for vacuum packs and dry ice to store frozen foods.
  — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2021
• Along with all the lava, the volcano released lots of carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide.
  — Scientific American Blog Network, 21 Apr. 2017
• Carbon dioxide and methane do this too, but HFCs trap heat at rates thousands of times higher.
  — Eric Dean Wilson, Time, 30 June 2021
• That hypothesis proved to be a bit of a stretch, though, as the clouds that fill Venus’ atmosphere are full of carbon-dioxide.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 23 Dec. 2021
• Carbon dioxide causes pain; the headache is sharp and profound, and the ragged panting feels like the body is struggling to catch up after a panicky sprint.
  — Rachel Lance, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2020
• Metals leave the city’s sulfur-dioxide-belching smelters by railway for an Arctic Ocean port.
  — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2019