How to Use carbon dioxide in a Sentence

carbon dioxide

noun

• At daybreak, the cranks pull the ring back up to the surface to soak up sunlight and carbon dioxide.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Dec. 2023
• With cask ales, the flavors aren’t masked by gassy carbon dioxide, and can more easily shine through in the glass.
  — Jay R. Brooks, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
• The carbon can then react with the oxygen and release carbon dioxide.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 5 Oct. 2023
• Sure, trees can take in and store planet-heating carbon dioxide.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 28 Feb. 2023
• These tiny air sacs take in oxygen and expel carbon dioxide.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
• The 2019 study examined how carbon dioxide and oxygen moved through various mulches in and out of the ground.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that traps about 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide.
  — Lucas Thompson, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2023
• Methane is a greenhouse gas that has up to 80 times the global warming power of carbon dioxide.
  — Christina Manian, Rdn, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Mar. 2023
• Then, global carbon dioxide emissions reached an all-time high in 2019.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Mar. 2023
• As the muffins cook, the baking powder creates carbon dioxide gas bubbles.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 28 June 2023
• Slower ships burn less fuel and emit less carbon dioxide.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
• The basalt then reacts with rainwater to trap carbon dioxide in the air as a bicarbonate.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 7 Dec. 2023
• Pollutants can block the opening that plants use to take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen.
  — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 29 June 2023
• In the worst case, this flaw could lead to a malfunction that would allow dangerous amounts of carbon dioxide to build up in the capsule’s air supply.
  — Michael Greshko, Scientific American, 18 Jan. 2024
• The idea of using technology to suck carbon dioxide from the sky has gone from science fiction to big business.
  — Brad Plumer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• Named after the Māori term for sacred waters, the 213-foot-wide spring bubbles like Champagne due to high carbon dioxide levels.
  — Condé Nast Traveller, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2023
• Over these 30 millennia, that level of carbon dioxide triggered enough warming to melt much of the Greenland’s ice.
  — Paul Bierman, The Conversation, 20 July 2023
• Oxygen would never reach your cells without blood, and carbon dioxide would fill your blood vessels.
  — Rachel Swalin, Health, 7 Apr. 2024
• The United States has long been the world’s biggest emitter of carbon dioxide and is still the second biggest, emitting 14 percent of the global total.
  — Chris Buckley, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2023
• Over a 15-year lifespan, ours could eliminate about 54 tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
  — Tik Root, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2024
• Breaking down formic acid yields a molecule of hydrogen and of carbon dioxide.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Jan. 2024
• It is mostly made up of carbon dioxide, argon and nitrogen, with just a small amount of oxygen and water vapor.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 8 Aug. 2023
• The wildfires in Canada emit greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide that further warm the planet.
  — Vivian La, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2023
• However, the agency this week said 97% of gas stoves already meet the new standards that aim to decrease harmful carbon dioxide emissions.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
• These greenhouse gases are short-lived in the atmosphere, but powerful — some are thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide in the near-term.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
• Nitrous oxide is a greenhouse gas that is about 300 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.
  — Joan Michelson, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
• At the same time, the pressure produced by carbon dioxide and water vapor is high enough to lift small dust particles from the asteroid's surface.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• The jet, however, comes with steep carbon dioxide emissions – and criticism.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2024
• The project aims to capture at least 95% of the carbon dioxide released by the cement plant, which will prevent 2 million tons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere each year.
  — Isabella O'Malley, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
• Agricultural machinery, like tractors, and the trucks, trains, and planes that transport crops to consumers all emit carbon dioxide.
  — WIRED, 6 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024