How to Use carbon in a Sentence

carbon

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  • The Flow Country’s great carbon sink stretched out to the south.
    — WIRED, 31 Jan. 2023
  • It’s scheduled to open in 2029 and will emit zero carbon from the start.
    — TIME, 20 May 2024
  • Our forests, oceans, and soils can capture and store vast amounts of this carbon.
    — Time, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The carbon filter removes up to 99.7 percent of smoke, dust, and pet dander.
    — Ellen McAlpine, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2023
  • The shortness of the journey both reduces carbon emissions and ensures the herbs stay fresh.
    — Outside Online, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The fire spewed nearly four times the carbon emissions as airplanes do in a year, study authors said.
    — CBS News, 27 June 2024
  • The rest of the world averaged a 1.7% carbon pollution jump.
    — Time, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The current plan to avoid this fate is to reduce net carbon emissions to zero within the next 20 years.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The rums are mixed, carbon filtered, and then rested in French oak casks for a smooth rum that's redolent of vanilla and caramel with just a hint of spice.
    — Lauren Hubbard, townandcountrymag.com, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Brazil—and, by extension, the planet that depends on the Amazon as a carbon sink—seems to be at a turning point.
    — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
  • Livestock pastures with trees have been shown to hold more carbon than open pasture lands.
    — Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2024
  • State of play: One of the biggest fights is over Initiative 2117, which would repeal the state's cap-and-trade law that places a price on carbon emissions.
    — Melissa Santos, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The best way to wean the economy off burning carbon for energy is to put a tax on carbon.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
  • At the plant Just changing how corn is grown won’t lower the carbon intensity of ethanol enough.
    — Karina Atkins, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2024
  • As with all Priority bikes, the Current comes with a carbon drive belt first used in autos rather than a chain.
    — Nathan Borchelt, Travel + Leisure, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Mountain bikes, carbon-fiber race bikes, children’s bikes — all gone.
    — Michael Corkery, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Nov. 2022
  • And while that post didn't calculate the carbon emissions of such training runs, others have done so.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The event has done the one thing such confabs are supposed never to do, which is expose the truth about climate change and the race to net-zero carbon emissions.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2023
  • This forest type holds back much less water and stores much less carbon, which are key to slowing climate change.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2023
  • The rich and powerful do love to flock to Davos in their carbon-emitting private jets to discuss climate change.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 20 Jan. 2023
  • In this way, carbon is slowly deposited onto the thin slice.
    — Ana De Oliva, CNN, 6 Mar. 2024
  • But slowing demand for flying cuts the need for carbon removal way down.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The peatlands also serve as a carbon sink, storing large amounts of the gas that would otherwise heat up the atmosphere.
    — Wanjohi Kabukuru, ajc, 8 Apr. 2023
  • This could go a long way toward helping the United States shift to carbon-free energy.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Graphite is made up of flat layers of carbon atoms bonded together as hexagons.
    — Daniel Leonard, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Mass adoption could make a big dent in road congestion and carbon emissions.
    — Joann Muller, Axios, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The company stopped its carbon-offsetting program at the end of 2022 to focus on SAF.
    — Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 6 Apr. 2023
  • And the state’s plans for carbon neutrality have their critics.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2022
  • When its mission concludes, most of the probe will incinerate, leaving only its carbon heat shield to orbit the sun for potentially billions of years, until the very end of the solar system itself.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The construction materials will help cut carbon emissions by up to 300 metric tons, according to the administration.
    — Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024

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