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  2. List of tallest chimneys - Wikipedia

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    Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, tall chimneys were built, at the beginning with bricks, and later also of concrete or steel.Although chimneys never held the absolute height record, they are among the tallest free-standing architectural structures and often hold national records (as tallest free-standing or as overall tallest structures of a country).

  3. Anaconda Smelter Stack - Wikipedia

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    The overall height of the stack is 585 feet 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (178.35 m) (≈ 585 feet), [B] including a brick chimney 555 feet 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (169.20 m) (≈ 555 feet) tall and the downhill side of a concrete foundation 30 feet (9.1 m) high. This was the height when new in 1918, but loss of the terra cotta that covered the top course of ...

  4. Chimney - Wikipedia

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    A chimney is an architectural ventilation structure made of ... The height of a chimney influences its ability to transfer flue gases to the external environment via ...

  5. Stack effect - Wikipedia

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    The stack effect or chimney effect is the movement of air into and out of buildings through unsealed openings, chimneys, flue-gas stacks, or other purposefully designed openings or containers, resulting from air buoyancy. Buoyancy occurs due to a difference in indoor-to-outdoor air density resulting from temperature and moisture differences ...

  6. Flue-gas stack - Wikipedia

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    A flue gas stack at GRES-2 Power Station in Ekibastuz, Kazakhstan, the tallest of its kind in the world (420 meters or 1,380 feet) [1]. A flue-gas stack, also known as a smoke stack, chimney stack or simply as a stack, is a type of chimney, a vertical pipe, channel or similar structure through which combustion product gases called flue gases are exhausted to the outside air.

  7. Inco Superstack - Wikipedia

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    The Inco Superstack in Sudbury, Ontario, with a height of 381 metres (1,250 ft), is the tallest chimney in Canada and the Western Hemisphere, and the second-tallest freestanding chimney in the world after the Ekibastuz GRES-2 Power Station in Kazakhstan.

  8. List of tallest structures in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Tallest structure in New York was the north tower of the World Trade Center from 1973 to 2001, with an overall height including the antenna mast of 1,727 ft (526.3 m). The original World Trade Center towers were destroyed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, temporarily making the Empire State Building the tallest building in New York ...

  9. List of tallest structures in India - Wikipedia

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    Pinnacle height Year Structure type Location INS Kattabomman, ... Chimney Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh: Sagardighi Thermal Power Station Chimney 275 metres (902 ft)

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