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smokestack

[smohk-stak]

noun

  1. Also called stack.a pipe for the escape of the smoke or gases of combustion, as on a steamboat, locomotive, or building.



adjective

  1. pertaining to, engaged in, or dependent on a basic heavy industry, as steel or automaking.

    smokestack companies.

smokestack

/ ˈəʊˌæ /

noun

  1. Sometimes shortened to: stack.a tall chimney that conveys smoke into the air

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of smokestack1

First recorded in 1855–60; smoke + stack
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Vistra acquired the plant in 2018 and demolished it to make way for the battery facilities, leaving the iconic smokestacks behind.

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They're worried about PFAs plumes in their ground, poisoning their water, or whether or not their air is poisoned by sulfur dioxide from a smokestack next to them.

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Studies have found that particulate pollution known as PM 2.5, which is released by vehicles, industrial smokestacks and wildfires, can be attributed to as many as 200,000 excess deaths each year.

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Those pollutants include particulate matter 2.5, or sooty material that is released from vehicles, industrial smokestacks and wildfires.

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The smokestacks will reignite, The Other will be tamed, and life, and America, will be great again.

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