gas emission
Vapor leaving source
Gas emission is the release of gases into the atmosphere, particularly from industrial processes, vehicles, or natural sources.
The term appears most often in environmental contexts discussing pollution and climate change: The factory reduced its gas emissions by forty percent.
Greenhouse gas emissions—carbon dioxide, methane, and others—trap heat and contribute to global warming.
In technical settings, emission may refer to any gas discharge from equipment or geological formations.
- exhaustUse up entirely
- fumesAirborne chemical irritants
- pollutionEnvironmental harm from waste
- carbonSixth element, atomic symbol C
- dioxideBinary compound, two oxygens
car exhaust · methane · tailpipe · tailpipe fumes · smog · greenhouse · smoke · smoke stack · vapor · atmosphere · climate · climate change · fossil · fossil fuels · fuel · chimney · industrial · toxic
- volcanoesvolcano, volcanic eruption, Mount Fuji, volcanic eruptions, caldera
- volcanic activityeruption, active, lava, dormant, magma
- cometscomet, Halley's Comet, comet tail, Hale-Bopp, dirty snowball
- eruptionsexplosion, blast, lava flow, pyroclastic flow, plume
- volcano partscaldera, vent, crater lake, rim, crater rim
gas emissioncarbon capture
Collecting and storing emissions
carbon sequestration · carbon sink · air filtration · air purification · emission reduction
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