What's the difference between emission and fume?

Emission


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light from the sun; the emission of heat from a fire; the emission of bank notes.
  • (n.) That which is sent out, issued, or put in circulation at one time; issue; as, the emission was mostly blood.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The assembly reaction is accompanied by characteristic changes in fluorescence emission and dichroic absorption.
  • (2) In London, diesel emissions are now so bad that on several days earlier this summer, children, older people and vulnerable adults were warned not to venture outside .
  • (3) "It has done so much to educate people about low emissions cars.
  • (4) Large emission intensity fluctuations are observed from analyte species in inductively coupled plasmas.
  • (5) They argue that the US, the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases per capita (China recently surpassed us in sheer volume), needs to lead the fight to limit carbon emissions, rather continuing to block global treaties as it has done in the past.
  • (6) The spatial resolution of a NaI(T1), 25 mm thick bar detector designed for use in positron emission tomography has been studied.
  • (7) The optical efficiencies are similar and depend on the match of the excitation characteristics of the stain with the emission spectra of the light source.
  • (8) At our current rate, which is 10 gigatons of carbon a year, we have 27 years left, after which time carbon emissions would need to cease.
  • (9) The behavior and effects of atmospheric emissions in soils and plants are discussed.
  • (10) Several images of cerebral blood flow were recorded during inhalation of carbon-15-labelled carbon dioxide by positron emission tomography in four patients with essential tremor and four normal controls.
  • (11) The statistics underline the significant strides being taken by the industry to meet a government drive to reduce Britain's carbon emissions, although the scale of renewable energy subsidies remains controversial.
  • (12) The present analysis concentrates on the utilization of low-energy proton accelerators of several hundred kilovolts for particle-induced X-ray emission microanalysis.
  • (13) A fortnight ago the two countries signed a US$27 million deal to tackle deforestation on the island of Sumatra - a key problem in Indonesia where 80 per cent of emissions come from deforestation, both by legal and illegal loggers.
  • (14) The agreement, hailed as a "landmark" deal and a breakthrough by politicians and the green lobby alike, came before a crucial EU summit opening in Brussels tomorrow at which 27 prime ministers and presidents are supposed to finalise an ambitious package to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020.
  • (15) Fluorescence (excitation 360 nm, emission 454 nm) generation in glycated albumin was investigated.
  • (16) Results obtained from a such study are here compared with levels obtained from a comparative determination of the metals in the mosses by three other techniques: Differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry (DPASV), Direct current plasma (atomic emission) spectroscopy (DCPS) and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectroscopy.
  • (17) Speaking at The Carbon Show in London today, Philippe Chauvancy, director at climate exchange BlueNext, said that the announcement last week that it is to develop China's first standard for voluntary emission reduction projects alongside the government-backed China Beijing Environmental Exchange, could lay the foundations for a voluntary cap-and-trade scheme.
  • (18) 94 subjects, 64 with cerebral ischemia of varying severity and outcome, and 30 controls were studied with technetium-99m hexamethyl propylenamino oxime single photon emission computed tomography in order to evaluate the suitability of this technique in the assessment of cerebral ischemia.
  • (19) Pyridinoline was isolated from the cross-linked peptide by preparative amino acid analysis and reversed-phase HPLC and identified by its ultraviolet absorption spectra, its fluorescence excitation and emission spectra and, for the first time, its time-of-flight secondary ion-mass spectrum.
  • (20) In the US, electricity accounts for 39% of emissions – and 75% of that is contributed by coal.

Fume


Definition:

  • (n.) Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco.
  • (n.) Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control; as, the fumes of passion.
  • (n.) Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.
  • (n.) The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
  • (n.) To smoke; to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical action; to rise up, as vapor.
  • (n.) To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.
  • (n.) To pass off in fumes or vapors.
  • (n.) To be in a rage; to be hot with anger.
  • (v. t.) To expose to the action of fumes; to treat with vapors, smoke, etc.; as, to bleach straw by fuming it with sulphur; to fill with fumes, vapors, odors, etc., as a room.
  • (v. t.) To praise inordinately; to flatter.
  • (v. t.) To throw off in vapor, or as in the form of vapor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Peak Expiratory Flow and Forced Expiratory Mean Flows in the ranges 0-25%, 25-50% and 50-75% of Forced Vital Capacity were significantly reduced in animals exposed to gasoline exhaust fumes, whereas the group exposed to ethanol exhaust fumes did not differ from the control group.
  • (2) Poor workplace health and safety, inadequate toilet facilities and dangerous fumes from mosquito fogging that led to one asylum seeker with asthma collapsing were all raised as concerns by Kilburn, although he stressed that he believed G4S management and expatriate G4S staff acted appropriately.
  • (3) Cadmium fumes and compounds have been found to be instrumental in the development of some cases of chronic bronchitis and emphysema in Sweden.
  • (4) It is referred to an additional potential endangering by gun fumes and the measures for the protection of labour which are to be derived from this.
  • (5) The prevalence of occupational dust exposure was 32%, and gas or fume exposure, 19%.
  • (6) Hydrogen sulfide poisoning from inhalation of roofing asphalt fumes is a rare but devastating injury.
  • (7) Where efficient fume extraction was in use, levels of air contaminants were lower than with natural ventilation.
  • (8) Using field observations, modelling techniques and theoretical analysis, parameters describing the performance and collection efficiency of large industrial canopy fume hoods are established for, a) steady state collection of fume and b) collection of plumes with fluctuating flowrates.
  • (9) In January, Boehner announced that Netanyahu had accepted an invitation to address a joint session of Congress – a move that left the White House fuming, since Obama was not consulted about the visit.
  • (10) Some abnormalities (increased VC, decreased RV) are typical of diving activities, but the deterioration of effort-dependent expiratory flow values and alveolar-capillary diffusion must be ascribed to specific nuisances (fumes, polluants, toxic substances) associated with fireman's activities.
  • (11) Subjects with gas or fume exposure had relative odds of symptoms between 1.27 and 1.43 when compared with unexposed subjects.
  • (12) Black Cats manager Gus Poyet fumed: “If you ask every single manager we want to talk about football, but we always find ourselves talking about a decision.
  • (13) The highest fume concentration on the horizontal was shown in the fumes collected directly above the arc.
  • (14) The tea-shop owner’s home is just a couple of hundred metres from a huge, ageing coal-fired power plant in central Turkey , whose red-and-white chimneys spew dirty fumes.
  • (15) A total of 69 male subjects occupationally exposed to cadmium fumes in a factory producing silver-cadmium-copper alloys for brazing, were subjected to lung function tests, including ventilation (FVC and FEV1), residual volume (RV) and alveolar-capillary diffusion capacity (TLCO and KCO).
  • (16) But after more than half a million people signed an Avaaz petition calling for Ca ñete’s rejection , environmentalists were left fuming at a perceived democratic deficit in the EU.
  • (17) Two individuals developed an asthma-like illness after a single exposure to high levels of an irritating aerosol, vapor, fume, or smoke.
  • (18) Exposures to various gas fumes and vapors accounted for the largest percentage of all hospitalizations (38%), and the second largest percentage of deaths (20.6%).
  • (19) Data collected on various types of filters (dust and mist; dust, fume, and mist; paint, lacquer, and enamel mist; and high efficiency) challenged with a worst case-type sodium chloride (NaCl) and dioctyl phthalate (DOP) aerosol are presented.
  • (20) All four gave immediate bronchial reactions to inhalation of the fumes, varying from one breath to 3 min of exposure.