fumes


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Synonyms for fumes

gases ejected from an engine as waste products

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Speaking from the scene at the Amara hotel, fire service chief Markos Trangolas said the fumes were a result of two swimming pool chemicals, one being chlorine, mixed together by inadvertently.
If the recently introduced legislation passes, the FAA would develop a standardized form so that airline personnel, including flight attendants, could report incidents regarding fumes and smoke on commercial aircrafts.
The bizarre trend sees youngsters setting fire to plastic bins then inhaling the highly toxic fumes in a bid to get high, reports the Mirror .
VANDALS are setting wheelie bins on fire so they can inhale the fumes, police have warned.
MONKEYS were forced to breathe fumes from a new Volkswagen in rigged research to make people think diesel vehicles had become greener.
Choked-up roads are so bad for our health WE have got rid of smoking chimneys and dense fog and replaced them with deadly traffic fumes - our town with its ring road and all approaching roads suffering from toxic fumes breaching the clean air act.
In this concept we introduce a new method to filter the welding fumes. The fumes that come from welding spot is known as welding fumes.
It carries harmful fumes out of the car and a damaged or outdated exhaust system can cause loud noises and waste gases that pollute the environment.
THE Chemrez plant in Bagumbayan, Quezon City that leaked unwanted fumes on Sunday has partially resumed operations while full operations are expected by Thursday, listed parent firm DandL Industries said.
It provides a controlled environment for the processing of latent ( barely visible) fingerprints on most non- porous surfaces, while eliminating personnel ( examiner's) exposure to hazardous cyanoacrylate fumes released.
Honeybees use floral odours to find flowers that will give the best yields of pollen and nectar but diesel fumes can affect their ability to locate and recognise the plants, potentially affecting pollination and ultimately global food security.
In the nose of a mammal, specialized nerve fibres are activated by acidic fumes, stimulating the trigeminal nucleus, a collection of nerves in the brainstem, which in turn elicits physiological and behavioural responses that protect the animal-it will secrete mucus and rub its nose, for example, and withdraw or avoid the acidic fumes.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared diesel fumes to be carcinogenic - a finding that could worry those working alongside machinery in the Middle East, where diesel fuel is low quality, and high levels of particulates are emitted from engines.