emission control technologies sort of chew up pollution

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An example of simile in public science discourse:

"We insert emission control technology into stacks in power plants, and those technologies, sort of, chew up pollution before it reaches the atmosphere…"

Dr Eloise Marais

Dr Eloise Marais, Associate Professor in Physical Geography, University College London, was talking on an episode ('Rocket Launch Pollution') of BBC Inside Science

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.