smokestack
pertaining to, engaged in, or dependent on a basic heavy industry, as steel or automaking: smokestack companies.
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How to use smokestack in a sentence
For instance, they hunted down the locations of industrial smokestacks.
The plants are turned on when the need for electricity peaks, which tends to occur in the steamy summer months, igniting rows of fume-spewing smokestacks during peak electricity usage.
Our go-to weapon against heatwaves? A dirty backup power source. | Sara Kiley Watson | June 26, 2021 | Popular-ScienceAfter the fall of factories, knowledge has become the new face of capitalism with university bell towers lauded as the smokestacks of today’s cities.
Higher Education Has a Tax Problem and It's Hurting Local Communities | Davarian L. Baldwin | April 7, 2021 | TimeWhen David asks about the smoke rising from a smokestack at the plant, his father tells him that that’s where the male chicks are burned.
In the Gently Moving Minari, a Korean Family Finds Home in America's Heartland | Stephanie Zacharek | February 26, 2021 | TimeThat’s why another option is to combine hydrogen with carbon—which can be captured from the atmosphere in a process called air capture or from smokestacks—to produce liquid synthetic hydrocarbon fuels that are easier to handle than hydrogen.
Cheap renewables could make green hydrogen a practical replacement for fossil fuels | Katie McLean | February 24, 2021 | MIT Technology Review
Americans learned to look at a smokestack and see dying trees and fish downwind.
Green Politics Has to Get More Radical, Because Anything Less Is Impractical | Jedediah Purdy | April 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPoison comes out of a smokestack and, downwind, birds fall from the sky.
Green Politics Has to Get More Radical, Because Anything Less Is Impractical | Jedediah Purdy | April 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTYou seem to be finding a great deal to interest you in that smokestack, young man!
Quin | Alice Hegan RiceRailroads cause fires by their locomotives sending out sparks through the smokestack or dropping hot ashes along the right-of-way.
Our National Forests | Richard H. Douai BoerkerSampson had called his sleeping companion, and already the black smoke began to pour out of the smokestack.
Within The Enemy's Lines | Oliver OpticImmediately the boat listed and threw him away from the window, after which he sought a place of safety behind the smokestack.
The Everett massacre | Walker C. SmithSoon after, a heavy roll of the vessel broke the smokestack, and it was pitched overboard.
The Naval History of the United States | Willis J. Abbot.
British Dictionary definitions for smokestack
/ (ˈsməʊkˌstæk) /
a tall chimney that conveys smoke into the air: Sometimes shortened to: stack
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