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UK
/smˈəʊkstæk/
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[ US /ˈsmoʊkˌstæk/ ]
[ US /ˈsmoʊkˌstæk/ ]
NOUN
- a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated
How To Use smokestack In A Sentence
- There's been a steady decline in smokestack industries such as shipbuilding and steel.
- Given the prevailing south-west to north-east winds of the Sudbury summer, Penage is normally upwind, not downwind, from the smokestacks.
- After 1953, the only signs of life at the Clarkdale smelter were the demolitionists responsible for toppling the two smokestacks dominating the local skyline in the 1960s.
- There has been a shift from smokestack industries into high-tech ones.
- Another column dashed up her starboard side and carried off her smokestack.
- Similarly, by lowering the air pollution from smokestacks and tailpipes, carbon taxes also reduce respiratory illnesses such as asthma and emphysema, and health care costs - a triple dividend.
- In both cities and forests, alkyl nitrates are made when nitrogen oxides, which are produced by automobile tailpipes and smokestacks, react with hydrocarbon molecules.
- A reader of the NYT article might expect to look at the plume from the plant's smokestacks and see lots of smoke. Bill Chameides: The Sorry State of Environmental Journalism
- The smokestacks of the power station tower above the town.
- How clean would you make your factory if its water intake were downstream of its outfall, or if its air intake were connected to its smokestack?