Example sentences of "of carbon [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pre-ignition as a result of carbon formation in the combustion chamber together with local overheating which , particularly if encountered at high engine speeds , will result in the collapse of the piston crown . |
| 2 | Though some benefits and costs can not yet be valued , particularly wildlife habitat , and landscape conservation and enhancement , estimates of recreational values and of carbon storage can be calculated , and these , for some types of forest such as community forests , can make a big difference to the ‘ social profitability ’ of the investment , the commission says . |
| 3 | Where keg milds and bitters are concerned , when fermentation is complete they are conditioned for a short period in tanks under a heavy blanket of carbon dioxide . |
| 4 | The lifeless beer is pumped full of carbon dioxide gas , and further gas is used to force the beer to the bar . |
| 5 | For plants to photosynthesise and produce sugars in their leaf cells , they need to absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide . |
| 6 | In order to prolong the life of a cask , some publicans connect a cylinder of carbon dioxide to the shive hole and cover the beer with a blanket of gas . |
| 7 | Declaring global warming , caused by the build up of carbon dioxide and other gases , to be ‘ the most worrisome ’ of all environmental threats , Dr Cunningham promised a major long-term programme of energy conservation . |
| 8 | Although primarily motivated by the need to combat localised smog the new standards will also reduce problems of carbon dioxide — the main ‘ greenhouse ’ gas . |
| 9 | This is because the deliberate burning of the rainforests pumps hundreds of millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere . |
| 10 | Hundreds of millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide are pumped into the atmosphere each year from tropical forest burning , contributing to the ‘ Greenhouse Effect ’ — or global warming — which could severely disrupt the world 's climate . |
| 11 | Burning tropical rainforest produces millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide each year , which contributes to global warming — the Greenhouse Effect . |
| 12 | And burning it sends huge quantities of carbon dioxide into the air , adding to the ‘ Greenhouse Effect ’ that is already influencing world climates with such disastrous results . |
| 13 | Forest burning currently accounts for 20% of the world 's annual production of carbon dioxide . |
| 14 | He was in London yesterday to present a report to a conference of environmentalists , showing that most predictions of the greenhouse effect on the world 's climate are too optimistic , and advocating a plan of ‘ permissible ’ emissions of carbon dioxide . |
| 15 | Mrs Thatcher recognised the gravity of the situation and helped focus world attention on the subject , but , with US and Japan , undermined moves to set targets for reduction of carbon dioxide emissions , and failed to adopt energy efficiency policies . |
| 16 | Getting Out of the Greenhouse shows that strict economic criteria could be used to modify energy policy to cut Britain 's output of carbon dioxide gases , the biggest contributor to the greenhouse effect . |
| 17 | Mr Jonathon Porritt , director of FOE , said that a typical nuclear plant created 230,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide each year once construction of the plant and mining and enriching of uranium were taken into account . |
| 18 | The uncertain politics of carbon dioxide |
| 19 | The best guess prediction is that by 2030 the concentration of greenhouse gases of all kinds will be equivalent to a doubling of carbon dioxide ( if CO 2 was the only gas , the doubling would not take place until 2080 ) . |
| 20 | There are broadly three ways of reducing mankind 's output of carbon dioxide . |
| 21 | Industry was only slightly ahead at 29.5 per cent , and the transport sector — the fastest growing source of carbon dioxide — was third with 23.5 per cent . |
| 22 | Countries whose emissions exceeded their allocations would be obliged to buy ( or perhaps lease ) permits from countries whose output of carbon dioxide fell below their allowance . |
| 23 | Energy efficiency may be the quickest way to abate emissions of carbon dioxide but it is hard to imagine it being applied effectively in Third World countries , whose output of the gas is likely to overtake the developed world 's in the second or third decade of the next century . |
| 24 | Natural gas as a replacement for coal is important , too , but coal is cheap and plentiful and likely to remain the principal fuel of China , potentially the world 's biggest producer of carbon dioxide ( and other pollutants , too ) . |
| 25 | Nuclear power is undoubtedly a big ‘ saver ’ of carbon dioxide . |
| 26 | In 1986 Britain 's power stations were estimated to have produced 166.3 million tonnes of carbon dioxide , Germany 187.2 million tonnes . |
| 27 | France , which generated 70 per cent of its power from nuclear reactors and 18 per cent from hydro-electric and geothermal sources , produced 30.2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide . |
| 28 | The difference in the context of carbon dioxide emissions from all sources in the economy is estimated at between 234 million tonnes if gas is the main fuel and 250 if it is coal . |
| 29 | If energy saving is applied rigorously in homes and industry and the power stations clean up their act by switching from coal to other fuels or otherwise cutting their carbon emissions , transport seems set to take over as the biggest emitter of carbon dioxide in Western industrialized countries . |
| 30 | To take one example , if Britain stopped burning fossil fuels altogether , the world 's output of carbon dioxide — some 6 billion tonnes a year — would fall by only 160m tonnes . |