9 sentences with 'dioxide'
Example sentences and phrases with the word dioxide and other words derived from it.
• « The concentration of carbon dioxide and methane, as shown by ice cores from Antarctica and Greenland, remained constant (at about 700 parts of gas per billion parts of ice) in the period between 10,000 and 300 years ago. But in the last century they increased dramatically. »
• « The forest is easily available to any fire due to deforestation, through which severe amounts of carbon dioxide are released into our depleted atmosphere. »
• « We fly over a planet with a dense atmosphere composed almost entirely of carbon dioxide. A single breath of air breathed on Venus could kill us. »
• « Earth, too, had an atmosphere very rich in carbon dioxide, one of the most abundant volcanic gases. »
• « But on Earth, where there was no life then, the carbon dioxide quickly dissolved in the huge oceans of our planet, giving rise to carbonic acid that melted into the rocky soil of the seas and eventually created what we call carbonaceous rocks today. »
• « It is a great pleasure to observe that where once there was a stinking toxic sample, only water, carbon dioxide and a multitude of well-fed bacteria can be detected. »
• « It is known that dry ice is nothing more than easily liquefiable carbon dioxide at zero degrees Celsius and 36 atmospheres of pressure, while sticky snow is a snowflake covered by a very thin layer of water that is sticky. »