foam
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They’re from melting insulation foam and whatever it is that gets airborne when fire assails solar panels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
It also froths milk and makes cold foam, which opens up even more possibilities for a build-your-own drink bar.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
He also said he was shocked by the poor construction of the buildings, with plastic foam having been used as mortar filler between cement slabs and insufficient reinforcing steel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Over the next week, the fire continued to burn through dense insulation foam within the building’s walls and other unknown industrial materials, blanketing much of L.A. in acrid smoke.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
Finally, after threading her way through a cluster of rocks surrounded by foam, she came again to an endless stretch of water.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
The three movements include “an invocation to hands that weave”; “a meeting of foams, needles, songs, threats and pulsations”; and what Negrón calls “an archipelago of resonances and possibilities.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
The company said the Department of Defence kept using the PFAS-containing firefighting foams for two decades after it stopped selling the product in Australia.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
One of the chemicals found by both the EA and the independent testing is PFOS, a substance banned in the UK due to potential carcinogenic risks, often used in firefighting foams.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
This treatment is FDA approved, widely available over the counter, and comes in topical forms such as lotions and foams.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 2026
His mouth foams; he shakes her with all his own shock and indignation.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
The straw made from foamed CDA was a prototype to see if increasing the surface area would accelerate break down.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 30, 2024
Also banned are disposable cups and takeaway food containers made of expanded or foamed extruded polystyrene.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2023
Products like single-use packaging, plastic resins, foamed plastic insulation, bottles and containers, among many others, add to global greenhouse emissions.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 1, 2022
It foamed and raged and swept citizens along in its wake, but Nora alone was strong enough to outjump it.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2021
The waves foamed around the shore and the rocks that lurked beneath the surface.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
It helps nurture a slower, older way of life, with pocket flocks and modest dairy herds enclosed by thick hedgerows foaming with cow parsley and twittering songbirds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
Initial findings from the investigation into the blaze suggest that it was caused by sparklers igniting soundproof foaming that lined the ceiling.
From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2026
The A12 cafe, on one of the busiest avenues in the capital, displays a large picture of a foaming pint on its window.
From Barron's ● Nov. 19, 2025
Because I know from experience that some of you are frothing, foaming and itching to reach out and tell me that illegal means illegal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2025
The waves still break with foaming tops, the wind still chills damp skin, but with every rolling wave, I see the distant shore.
From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell
