How to Use vinyl chloride in a Sentence

vinyl chloride

noun

• 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
• First of all, air monitoring of vinyl chloride may not be useful by now.
  — Jill Neimark, STAT, 21 Feb. 2023
• Five cars carried a toxic, flammable gas called vinyl chloride that can cause certain cancers.
  — Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2024
• The burning of vinyl chloride can release dioxins into the air.
  — Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 31 Mar. 2023
• Breathing high levels of vinyl chloride can cause dizziness or sleepiness.
  — Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 16 Feb. 2023
• Scientists have known for decades that high doses of vinyl chloride can cause liver cancer.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 16 Feb. 2023
• Three days later, the railroad burned vinyl chloride from five tanker cars to avert a potential explosion.
  — Natalie Andrews, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Typically, vinyl chloride is only found in large amounts in and around the factories that produce it.
  — Mac Stone, Discover Magazine, 21 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• When inhaled, vinyl chloride can cause cancer, according to the EPA.
  — Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 31 Aug. 2020
• 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
• Struggling to contain the fire, officials feared five tank cars carrying vinyl chloride were in danger of exploding.
  — Shradha Dinesh, NPR, 3 Feb. 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Experts also added that hydrochloric acid, which is the byproduct of vinyl chloride when it is burned, does not typically get picked up by air currents or create acid rain.
  — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2023
• Officials decided to burn vinyl chloride from rail cars to prevent an uncontrolled explosion, which resulted in a huge plume of dark smoke over the town.
  — Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc, 26 Apr. 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
• People have also speculated that synthetic braiding hair could be linked to cancer due to the use of vinyl chloride in the chemical coating of the hair.
  — Kiara Byrd, Allure, 31 Oct. 2024
• Outside of the hair extension world, vinyl chloride is primarily used to make PVC for things like pipes and flooring.
  — Kiara Byrd, Allure, 31 Oct. 2024
• Wreckage from the derailment was still on fire Sunday, leaching a burning chemical identified as vinyl chloride from the train's cars.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 6 Feb. 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