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Recent Examples of chimney stackHedwig, blinkered by the bounty of her domestic environs, seemingly ignores the infernal light and smoke from nearby chimney stacks, and otherwise blocks out the machinery of mass death: the barking of guard dogs, the rumbling of crematoria, the crack of pistols, the screams of prisoners.—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
One of these is the Lost City, a vast hydrothermal field at the bottom of the Atlantic—a kind of unique prehistoric hotbed of massive, dramatic chimney spires venting chemical reactions that scientists have been studying for clues to how life on Earth (and other planets) began.
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Bonnie Tsui,
Time,
15 Sep. 2025
Stock image of smoke streaming from an industrial chimney.
Make sure the fireplace flue is open before lighting it.
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Nicole Villalpando,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
The four-story house was built into a hillside and featured concrete walls, gabled tile roofs, balustrade terraces, arched portico and a chimney with six flues, the city of Capitola wrote in an application seeking to include the building on the National Register of Historic Places.
In the 1700’s a factory smokestack in England was spewing smoking ashes onto a neighboring property.
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Christopher A. Combs,
AZCentral.com,
23 Sep. 2025
As environmental regulations limit the toxic output from smokestacks and tail pipes, particulate matter that could be absorbing or blocking incoming sunlight is being eliminated, leading to gradually warmer oceans.
Pay attention to where the kitchen and bathrooms are, too—water supply and waste pipes for the second floor are often found in walls on the first floor, below sinks, tubs, or showers.
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Kevin Cortez,
Popular Mechanics,
25 May 2023
Cathcart is referring to the plumbing that the vanity's sink and faucet connect to—the water lines and waste pipe connect to the underside of the sink via the bendy P-trap pipe.
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Kristina McGuirk,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 Apr. 2023
The little tube directing pure oxygen to my face did, as promised, make my complexion feel extra plump and glowy, too.
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Kathryn Romeyn,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Sep. 2025
The idea of 24 frames a second, something that is hard to grasp, but in this sequence, in this flow, becomes a seamless moving picture is juxtaposed with with this gas inside of this tube which becomes an eternal glow.
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