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Recent Examples of flue
This debris can block the flue and pose a fire risk.
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Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Jan. 2025
Wood-burning fireplaces create significantly more creosote, which can build up in the flue, than gas fireplaces.
—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
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
Wood-burning fireplaces create significantly more creosote, which can build up in the flue, than gas fireplaces.
—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
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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Volunteers will remove damaged, deteriorated or failing roof decking and repair it as needed; install new roofing on cabins; and install new copper flashing for chimneys, the release states.—
NWA Democrat-Gazette,
Arkansas Online,
14 Apr. 2025
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The firm made the home’s chimneys, pane windows, and gabled slate roofs part of the design’s focus — in concert with other homes in the area — but added a twist to the classic style: The residence is three separate spaces connected by glass passageways.—
Shannon Carroll,
Quartz,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The satellites are fitted with custom six-band multispectral infrared cameras, designed to capture imagery suitable for machine learning algorithms to accurately identify wildfires – differentiating them from misleading objects like smokestacks.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
18 Mar. 2025
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The problems caused by antitrust today extend far beyond those of the smokestack era.—
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr.,
Forbes,
12 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Super Flower also includes a plastic backing cover to block the duct holes, for those who would like more of the front fan’s air to be guided upward, toward their graphics card.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
15 Mar. 2025
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Sacramento police officers last month used an aerial drone to find two burglary suspects hiding among air conditioning ducts in the attic space of an office building in Gold River.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacramento Bee,
14 Mar. 2025
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Bell had opened the pipe steam valve by hand, which kept the lights on two hours after Titanic hit the iceberg, saving hundreds of lives.—
Sean Kingsley,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Apr. 2025
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The initial test site is near UC Irvine’s recreation center, with pipes running beneath daycare facilities, and future experiments are planned for UC San Diego’s campus.—
Jesse Kuehn,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Flue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flue. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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