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smokestack

[ smohk-stak ]

noun

  1. Also called stack. a pipe for the escape of the smoke or gases of combustion, as on a steamboat, locomotive, or building.


adjective

  1. pertaining to, engaged in, or dependent on a basic heavy industry, as steel or automaking:

    smokestack companies.

smokestack

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noun

  1. a tall chimney that conveys smoke into the air Sometimes shortened tostack
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Origin of smokestack1

First recorded in 1855–60; smoke + stack
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Studies have found that particulate pollution known as PM 2.5, which is released by vehicles, industrial smokestacks and wildfires, can be attributed to as many as 200,000 excess deaths each year.

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Those pollutants include particulate matter 2.5, or sooty material that is released from vehicles, industrial smokestacks and wildfires.

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The smokestacks will reignite, The Other will be tamed, and life, and America, will be great again.

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For decades, Southern California’s war on smog has focused on strategies to reduce pollution from tailpipes and smokestacks.

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Satellite images currently might confuse clouds or a smokestack for fires, Van Arsdale said.

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