fossil

Definition:
1. The remains of an animal or a plant which have become hard and turned into rock.
2. An old person, especially one who is unable to accept new ideas or adapt to changes.

Use 'fossil' in a sentence:

• 1. Close examination of those fossil deposits now reveals a somewhat different story.
• 2. Even Africa and the Middle East, home to economies that are heavily dependent on fossil fuel exports, have enormous potential to develop renewables.
• 3. Theres an energy crisis in America, and it has nothing to do with fossil fuels.
• 4. Oftentimes, these fossils are not made available to science at all.
• 5. We have fossil fuel on Earth.
• 6. At this distance of time it is difficult to date the fossil.
• 7. Fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas will service our needs for some considerable time to come.
• 8. Natural gas and coal—also fossil fuels—have similarly seen price declines that look to be long-lived.
• 9. You have more information from it than from any fossil you can think of.
• 10. In other words, a few countries are benefiting enormously from the consumption of fossil fuels.
• 11. Burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
• 12. Fortunately, some recent fossil discoveries have made the picture a little bit clearer.
• 13. Peter Forey is curator of fossil fishes at the Natural History Museum.
• 14. If not corrected by the appropriate carbon price, low fossil fuel prices are not accurately signaling to markets the true social profitability of clean energy.
• 15. But renewable energy will have to displace fossil fuels to a much greater extent in thefuture to avoid unacceptable climate risks.
• 16. The current low fossil fuel price environment will thus certainly delay the energy transition from fossil fuel to clean energy sources.
• 17. In other words, a few countries are benefiting enormously from the consumption of fossil fuels, while at the same time contributing disproportionately to the global burden of climate change.
• 18. The fossil record shows that many species have endured for millions of years—so why shouldn't we?
• 19. Green buildings like this aren't necessarily cost-efficient for the investor, but it does produce much less pollution than that caused by energy production through fossil fuels.
• 20. Fossil fuels release carbon that has been stored for years from the earth.
• 21. fossils over two million years old.
• 22. There's an energy crisis in America, and it has nothing to do with fossil fuels.
• 23. The country has an abundant supply of fossil fuels.
• 24. Earth was already in one of its warm interglacial periods when we started burning fossil fuels.
• 25. The extensive data sources, Combined with computer simulations, created a timeline of ocean temperature changes, including cooling from volcanic outbreaks and warming from fossil fuel emissions.
• 26. Fossil fuel prices are likely to stay "low for long".
• 27. Renewables account for only a small share of global primary energy consumption, which is still dominated by fossil fuels — 30% each for coal and oil, 25% for natural gas.
• 28. We don't use any fossil fuels.
• 29. The man is a fossil.
• 30. In fact, fossil beds containing soft-bodied animals have been known for many years.
• 31. Intermediated fossil forms, predicted by gradualism, are typically lacking.
• 32. Notwithstanding important recent progressin developing renewable fuel sources, low fossil fuel prices could discourage further innovation in, and adoption of, cleaner energy technologies.
• 33. There is strong evidence that both innovation and adoption of cleaner technology are strongly encouraged by higher fossil fuel prices.
• 34. Natural gas and coal — also fossil fuels — have similarly seen price declines that look to be long-lived.
• 35. As we know, rapid deforestation combined with the massive burning of fossil fuels is an explosive recipe for an irreversible disaster.
• 36. Progress in the development of renewables could be fragile, however, if fossil fuel prices remain low for long.
• 37. Fossil hunters have unearthed the bones of an elephant believed to be 500,000 years old.
• 38. The same is true for new technologies for alleviating fossil fuel emissions.
• 39. Our use of fossil fuels is the main source of excess greenhouse gases.
• 40. With such a long interval, it is difficult to determine the age of this fossil.
• 41. The fossil fuels ( coal and oil) are finite resources.
• 42. The fossils had been chipped out of the rock.
• 43. Ross Mounce, a postdoc studying evolutionary biology at the University of Cambridge, UK, is a vocal champion of open science, partly because his fossil based research on access to others' data.
• 44. However, for older sequence of evolutionary development, estimates based on parts in the fossil record.
• 45. The fossil luckily includes a good portion of the hind legs.
• 46. The electricity industry consumes large amounts of fossil fuels.
• 47. The fossil remains of apemen can help us infer how they lived.
• 48. Extinct but already fully marine cetaceans are known from the fossil record.
• 49. Burning fossil fuels uses oxygen and produces carbon dioxide.
• 50. The term "fossil" often implies petrifaction, literally a transformation into stone.
• 51. The only clue he has is a fossil.
• 52. On a global scale, 77% of energy is created from fossil fuels.