What is "smokestacks"

Usage examples of "smokestacks".

At new electric utility plants in other states, smokestacks a thousand feet high, supplemented by electrostatic filters and scrubbers that removed sulfur from smokestack gases, were reducing pollution to acceptable levels.

He would plant forests and beautiful flower gardens, with livestock on grassy hills rather than smelter smokestacks and mounds of discarded tailings from the mine shafts.

There were red brick stacks and tall silver ones, stacks in regimental rows or all alone puffing meditatively away, a forest of smokestacks that dimmed the sunlight and then, all of a sudden, blocked it out completely.

The main building, a fortress of dark brick, was seven stories high, the smokestacks seventeen.

A painted flat shows a steamship, two huge smokestacks, and a swath of deck and railing.

A lengthy stop was at the enormous electrostatic dust collectorsrequired under environmental laws-whose purpose was to remove burned fly ash which otherwise would belch from smokestacks as a pollutant.

In less than ten minutes be could see La Mission plant ahead, with its high smokestacks and the big, functional building which housed boilers and turbine-generators.