EMISSION in a Sentence

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For EMISSION, below is one of 19 sentences:
This enables a radar to detect objects at ranges where other emissions, such as sound or visible light, would be too weak to detect.

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 Meanings and Examples of EMISSION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
emission
 n.  radiation; discharge; act of emitting
Classic Sentence:
1  He came into the room and nodded abstractedly to Wildeve, his lips still parted, and his features excruciatingly strained in the emission of the chorus.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  But, the fume gas control techniques of most of them are highly advanced, where dioxins emission is usually controlled within standard.
2  The Clean Cars Act is the first law in America to force car manufacturers to find ways of reducing the emission of greenhouse gasses.
3  It is sort of emission of visible light by living organisms such as the firefly and various fish, fungi, and bacteria.
4  Scientists used a type of scan, known as positron emission tomography, to show that just one hour of exposure to second hand smoke in an enclosed area can allow nicotine to reach the brain.
5  The emission of gases such as carbon dioxide should be stabilised at their present level.
6  Prescott's speech comes as ministers from around the world struggle to overcome complex arguments about how the Kyoto agreement on cutting greenhouse gas emissions should work.
7  Yesterday, I posted that the total budget of fossil fuel emissions we can ever emit is 1 trillion tones of Carbon.
8  What we've seen recently is that we really had foot on the gas pedal of greenhouse gas emissions.
9  This enables a radar to detect objects at ranges where other emissions, such as sound or visible light, would be too weak to detect.
10  The US and Europe are both moving to low sulphur fuels for emissions reasons, but it is a beneficial ingredient for the engine.
11  Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels will produce a 3 percent reduction in the density of Earth's outermost atmosphere by 2017.
12  Please check Australia's national public database of pollutant emissions.
13  It is a computer-tweaked facsimile, into whose mouth has been put a not-entirely serious homily about Belgium's carbon emissions.
14  But despite increasingly severe warnings from scientists and a major economic recession, global emissions have continued to soar unchecked.
15  He has vilified political opponents who support a tax on carbon-dioxide emissions; the oil sands industry, Canada's fastest growing CO2 polluter, says he's out of step.