smokestack

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If that process were adapted to store CO2 in the earth forever, then billions of tons of carbon emissions could, in theory, be captured from smokestacks and buried.

From Salon • Jun. 26, 2026

Similarly, as people have taken steps to reduce acidic emissions coming from smokestacks and other sources, less acid has fallen as precipitation, changing the chemistry of soils.

From Science Daily • Jun. 21, 2026

In 1878, confronting the lowest prices for pig iron since colonial times, American ironmasters wondered if the smokestacks on their idled blast furnaces might serve a higher use as astronomical observatories.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

US forces had fired "precision munitions into their smokestacks, preventing the non-compliant ships from entering Iran," the statement said.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

He was looking abstractedly toward, or over, the twin smokestacks up on the Sports Deck.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger