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Recent Examples of flue
Wood-burning fireplaces create significantly more creosote, which can build up in the flue, than gas fireplaces.
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Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Jan. 2025
Firs, pines, and spruces have a high sap content that can damage your chimney flue and produce a lot of creosote on your chimney walls.
—Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Dec. 2024
Worn or poorly adjusted and maintained combustion devices (e.g., boilers, furnaces) can be significant sources, or if the flue is improperly sized, blocked, disconnected, or is leaking.
—Marley Malenfant, Austin American-Statesman, 11 June 2024
Catch up quick: Capturing the carbon from the flues of plants, like gas, coal and ethanol, and storing it underground (called CCS) has long been technically but not economically feasible, and in development.
—Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 6 Sep. 2024
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Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Jan. 2025
Firs, pines, and spruces have a high sap content that can damage your chimney flue and produce a lot of creosote on your chimney walls.
—Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Dec. 2024
Worn or poorly adjusted and maintained combustion devices (e.g., boilers, furnaces) can be significant sources, or if the flue is improperly sized, blocked, disconnected, or is leaking.
—Marley Malenfant, Austin American-Statesman, 11 June 2024
Catch up quick: Capturing the carbon from the flues of plants, like gas, coal and ethanol, and storing it underground (called CCS) has long been technically but not economically feasible, and in development.
—Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 6 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flue
Noun
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The smoke is released from a tiny chimney visible to thousands of spectators outside St. Peter’s Basilica.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
28 Feb. 2025
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White smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney signals the election of a new pope, while black smoke means no decision yet.—
John Bacon,
USA TODAY,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The work calls for climbing any manner of tall objects and edifices – frequently flagpoles but also towers, smokestacks and even the occasional cross – to install, repair, paint, maintain or inspect them.—
Jorge L. Ortiz,
USA TODAY,
2 Nov. 2024
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With mitigation, the goal is to cut pollution, whether from a smokestack or a tailpipe.—
Alice Hill,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Feb. 2025
Noun
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This includes closing any doors to rooms inside the home that may have ventilation ducts connected to the outside, commonly found in laundry rooms and bathrooms.—
Dr. Jade Cobern,
ABC News,
14 Jan. 2025
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Nigh’s two cellmates are alleged to have helped him into a ceiling chase, which is a space above a ceiling that often houses ducts, and covering for him.—
Phil Helsel,
NBC News,
29 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Some Russian troops had spent several days in the pipe before striking Ukrainian units from the rear near the town of Sudzha, blogger Yuri Podolyaka claimed.—
Joanna Kozlowska,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Mar. 2025
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White did take the opportunity, before Friday’s qualifiers, to serve as a forerunner in the pipe alongside 10-year-old Paizley White (no relation), a Whitespace team rider.—
Michelle Bruton,
Forbes,
9 Mar. 2025
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“Flue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flue. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.
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