"gas" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The evidence mounted last week that man-made gases are causing deterioration of the earth's atmosphere.
- It has become widely known that man-made gases, mostly oxides, rise into the stratosphere and create a blanket similar to the plastic or glass bubble that surrounds a greenhouse.
- For their part, the Europeans accept the overwhelming scientific consensus that man-made gases are heavily responsible for the warming of Earth's atmosphere.
- The crucial point is what to do about rising emissions of carbon dioxide, the principal man-made atmospheric gas among several that trap heat like the glass panes of a greenhouse.
- An authoritative report has concluded that man-made gases contributed substantially to the rise in temperature over the last 50 years.
- These man-made gases are present in the atmosphere only in tiny amounts, but because they accelerate the breakdown of ozone, they increase the hazard of excess ultraviolet radiation.
- But the summary of the latest report asserts more confidently that man-made gases have "contributed substantially to the observed warming over the last 50 years."
- The production of harmful man-made gases tipped the balance against ozone.
- Both regard global warming caused by man-made gases that retain heat in the atmosphere as a significant threat to the environment and would call a meeting of world leaders to address it.
- Fluorinated gases (F-gases) are man-made gases that can stay in the atmosphere for centuries and contribute to a global greenhouse effect.
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