flaring

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Verb

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flaring

  1. present participle and gerund of flare

Noun

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flaring (countable and uncountable, plural flarings)

  1. The act of something that flares.
  2. (oil industry) The deliberate open-air burning of natural gas that is generated as a by-product of various petrochemical processes, especially oil extraction; gas flaring.
    Coordinate term: venting
    • 2023 May 9, Damian Carrington, “‘Mind-boggling’ methane emissions from Turkmenistan revealed”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
      Separate research suggests a switch from the flaring of methane to venting may be behind some of these vast outpourings. Flaring is used to burn unwanted gas, putting CO₂ into the atmosphere, but is easy to detect and has been increasingly frowned upon in recent years.

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