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dioxide

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES carbon dioxide sulfur dioxide sulphur dioxide sulphur dioxide/carbon dioxide/greenhouse gas etc emissions ▪ The treaty calls for a 30% reduction in sulphur dioxide emissions. sulphur dioxide/carbon dioxide/greenhouse ...

Usage examples of dioxide.

A good dose of sugar, or more carbon dioxide, will increase the acidosis enough to put you right.

Consequently the concentration of carbon dioxide in the alveolar air and the blood is increased and, the efficiency of the cerebral reducing valve being lowered, visionary experience becomes possible.

Changes had taken place in Argentil, particularly an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide and water vapor, but those could be the result of natural long-term climatic changes.

The fool Klysterman was in charge of the carbon dioxide unit that cornered and destroyed the ergot fungus beside the reactor pool.

The hemoglobin takes up molecular oxygen in the lung capillaries, ozonizes it, and since hemin is easily reduced, the red cells give up oxygen to the muscle cells that need it, in return for carbon dioxide.

After it takes up the carbon dioxide, hemin turns purple and enters the vein system on the way back to the lungs, and we can forget it.

In the red corpuscle, a mass of hemin stands by to seize the carbon dioxide and offer more oxygen.

She repeats the procedure with a rock taken from the uninoculated control jar and then, as a precaution, takes tiny chips from several of the other inoculated cubes of rock, inserts them into a glass straw under carbon dioxide, and seals the straw by melting its ends in a Bunsen burner flame.

Solar cells provided energy for all the needs of the castle, and in the event of emergency food could be synthesized from carbon dioxide and water vapor, as well as syrup for Phanes, Peasants and Birds.

The hot springs and volcanoes work swiftly and directly, and return the water, the carbon dioxide, and a host of other vaporizable and soluble and fusible substances to the realm of solar activity, to the living surface zone of the earth.

Under the conditions of the assay the dioxide cannot be weighed, as it partly dissolves on breaking the current.

Grimes opened them himself, laughing wrily as the violently expanding carbon dioxide shot the corks up to the deckhead.

This time, they used the chlorine dioxide gas in the ventilation system in those sections of the building where traces of anthrax were found and the liquid form of chlorine dioxide in the office suite itself.

The carbon dioxide is boiled off, and the beryllia is then precipitated as hydrate with ammonia.

Our friend Eric Muller, a teacher at the Exploratorium, can make a fire that burns quite well in a carbon dioxide atmosphere.