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a chimney with delusions of grandeur, exhaling the receipts of human ambition.
means A tall vertical pipe or chimney that carries away the smoke and exhaust from a factory, ship, or locomotive.
from A plain compound of "smoke" and "stack," both old Germanic-rooted English words — "smoke" tracing back to Old English "smoca," and "stack" arriving via Old Norse "stakkr," originally a heap of hay. The pairing rose with industry: as factories and steamships sprouted towering chimneys in the 19th century, English needed a word for the smoke-belching stack, and simply bolted the two together. The same logic gave America its "smokestack industries."
- tall on purpose
- Height disperses pollution further, so dilution beat solution
- record holder
- Kazakhstan's 420-meter stack once topped the world
- scrubber surprise
- Modern stacks emit mostly water vapor, not smoke
- effect named
- The stack effect drives smoke up naturally via heat
- endangered species
- Renewables are quietly making them industrial fossils
johnson smokestack — iconic 1920s steel mill chimney in gary, indiana, 385 feet tall, symbol of american industrial era
battersea power station stack — four 335-foot chimneys in london, built 1933, recognizable art deco industrial landmark