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flare stack

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flare stack (plural flare stacks)

  1. a tall structure used for burning off waste gas at oil refineries and other installations.
    • 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 171:
      she imagined them demolishing all the equipment used for oil production, including the flare stacks that rose into the skies to burn the natural gas

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