How to Use ethylene oxide in a Sentence

ethylene oxide

noun
  • These controls can measure ethylene oxide in indoor air down to 10 parts per billion.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Updates on the village’s actions relative to ethylene oxide can be found on its website.
    — Erin Yarnall, chicagotribune.com, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Higher autism severity scores and weaker daily living skills were also linked with ethylene oxide.
    — Sharon Lerner, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Higher autism severity scores and weaker daily living skills were also linked with ethylene oxide.
    — Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The agency said ethylene oxide emissions could pose an elevated risk of cancer and other ailments.
    — Fox News, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The complex would discharge carcinogens like benzene, formaldehyde, and ethylene oxide into the air.
    — Popular Science, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The company has faced scrutiny in recent years over its emissions of cancer-causing ethylene oxide from its plant in Waukegan.
    — Lisa Schencker, chicagotribune.com, 8 June 2021
  • If sterilized, face masks or surgical masks would likely be sterilized using ethylene oxide.
    — Abby Patkin, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2020
  • While making an animal feed additive, the plant releases ethylene oxide, a colorless gas linked to leukemia and breast cancer.
    — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Nearly all of the risk is from exposure to ethylene oxide, which has been on the federal list of carcinogens since 1985.
    — Clifford Ward, chicagotribune.com, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Tuesday’s proposal is based on the latest EPA science on ethylene oxide.
    — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Davis has even exposed it to ethylene oxide, a poisonous gas used to sterilize laboratory equipment, with no discernible effects.
    — Steve Nadis, Science | AAAS, 18 Feb. 2020
  • But nationwide, more than 100 sterilizing plants still use ethylene oxide.
    — CBS News, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Lawyers for the companies argued that Salvi offered no proof that Kamuda’s breast cancer was caused by exposure to ethylene oxide.
    — Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Sterigenics has known of ethylene oxide’s carcinogenic effects since at least 1984, one of the complaints alleges.
    — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 21 Aug. 2020
  • In suburban Chicago, one of its facilities was shut down due to elevated levels of ethylene oxide.
    — Tony Briscoestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2022
  • These chemicals, such as methyl bromide, ethylene oxide, and phosphine, can cause myriad symptoms, ranging from nausea and skin irritation to seizures and even death.
    — Chris Baraniuk, Wired, 16 July 2022
  • The rule targets ethylene oxide, used for sterilizing medical devices, and chloroprene, used to make rubber in footwear, plus four other chemicals.
    — Peter Weber, theweek, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Overall, styrene and ethylene oxide, a carcinogenic gas, are the top two chemicals released into the air and water in Salinas, officials say.
    — DÁnica Coto, ajc, 29 Jan. 2023
  • The Grand Rapids facility later stopped using ethylene oxide.
    — Michael Hawthorne, chicagotribune.com, 17 May 2021
  • The company uses ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing gas, to sterilize medical equipment and other goods.
    — Meris Lutz, ajc, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Communities exposed to ethylene oxide gas had lobbied the EPA to put tighter controls on plants that use ethylene oxide gas.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 11 Apr. 2023
  • More than 20 billion devices are sterilized with ethylene oxide—about 50% of devices that need sterilization.
    — Korin Miller, Verywell Health, 2 Feb. 2024
  • During this inspection the film processor suddenly started leaking ethylene oxide, destroying the test film.
    — Fox News, 27 July 2019
  • Salinas also is home to Steri-Tech, the company that uses ethylene oxide to sterilize medical equipment.
    — DÁnica Coto, ajc, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Meanwhile, several people have sued the sterilizing company, claiming their health has been affected by the ethylene oxide emissions.
    — Andy Miller, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2024
  • At the time, Madigan urged the Legislature to pass legislation to ban or greatly restrict the use of ethylene oxide in Illinois.
    — Charles Selle, Lake County News-Sun, 10 June 2019
  • The company also argued the lawsuit doesn’t prove ethylene oxide is responsible for the illnesses of residents and former workers.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Despite parents’ complaints, School board members compared the testing compound, called ethylene oxide, to sterilizing a fork with bleach but not being poisoned from using the fork to eat.
    — Brooke Baitinger, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Aug. 2021
  • The proposal would slash ethylene oxide emissions nationwide by about two-thirds and chloroprene by three-quarters from 2020 levels, according to the agency.
    — Michael Phillis, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2023

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