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flare stacks

flare stacks is the plural of flare stack.

Meaning of flare stack

Noun

flare stack (plural flare stacks)

  1. a tall structure used for burning off waste gas at oil refineries and other installations.
    • she imagined them demolishing all the equipment used for oil production, including the flare stacks that rose into the skies to burn the natural gas2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 171
    Synonyms:
    flare tower

Questions about flare stacks

What is flare stacks the plural of?
Flare stacks is the plural of flare stack.

Words near flare stacks in the dictionary

  1. flare nuts
  2. flare out
  3. flare path
  4. flare paths
  5. flare stack
  6. flare stacks
  7. flare tower
  8. flare towers
  9. flare up
  10. flare ups
  11. flare-nut wrench

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