adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
atmospheric pollution formal (= air pollution )
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The oil wells continued to burn, causing atmospheric pollution on a massive scale.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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carbon
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As levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane increase, the greenhouse effect will trap increasing amounts of heat.
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Estimating the future rate of energy growth is of critical importance for predicting future concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
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Disturbed soils are an additional major source of atmospheric carbon .
gases
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Everything we use comes in one form or another from the earth, its oceans or atmospheric gases .
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Then a balloon, looking like a bundle of long cylinders, is unreeled from the probe and inflated with atmospheric gases .
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Carbon atoms can form bonds not only with themselves but with the atoms of important atmospheric gases , oxygen and nitrogen.
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Loss of atmospheric gases and impactor materials to space becomes even more important for larger explosions.
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Even modest-sized impactors can blast atmospheric gases off of Mars at speeds above escape velocity.
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Indeed, three separate classes of meteorites are known that contain Martian atmospheric gases .
oxygen
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Some 1800 million years ago atmospheric oxygen was fast approaching the present level of about 21 percent of the total.
pollution
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Other wells continued to burn, causing atmospheric pollution on an epic scale.
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Nylon was chosen for its strength and its resistance to extremes of temperature and atmospheric pollution .
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The polytechnic has employed research student Jo Denn to see whether a link can be established between childhood asthma and atmospheric pollution .
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Taken together, they represent the most forceful link yet made by respected institutions between man-made atmospheric pollution and global warming.
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It is part of a research programme aimed at understanding the basic processes causing damage to trees and crops due to atmospheric pollution .
pressure
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The cabin is usually stabilised at less than atmospheric pressure , so its air has less oxygen than usual.
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One was its glass house-the vacuum chamber that shielded the chronometer from troubling changes of atmospheric pressure and humidity.
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It usually equals the atmospheric pressure .
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In a cabin soaked in pure oxygen at greater than atmospheric pressure for five hours, almost anything bums.
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The technique makes use of the properties that water develops when heated to high temperatures at high atmospheric pressures .
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If it is frozen at different atmospheric pressures , the ice crystals formed are different.
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The temperature pattern also reverses when the pattern of atmospheric pressure of the southern oscillation reverses.
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Normal atmospheric pressure is about 100 kPa, so the cabin pressure was just over one third of this.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a writer of atmospheric novels
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Snow crystals form when atmospheric conditions turn water vapour into ice.
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The cylinder swelled and contracted with the changing atmospheric pressure.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At times slight, but warm, gentle and atmospheric .
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I feel that the effect of my white washes gives an airy, atmospheric quality.
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Indeed, the fact that not many people can converse comfortably about antennas and atmospheric conditions is part of the appeal.
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More importantly, it held the soil in place, helped alleviate flooding and moderated the atmospheric temperature.
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No sulphur deficiency has yet been detected as a result of falling atmospheric levels but there is a need for continued vigilance.
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Normal atmospheric pressure is about 100 kPa, so the cabin pressure was just over one third of this.
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This use of cats in Peake's bleak Gormenghast Castle may be more than merely an atmospheric description.