vog

[ vog, vawg ]

noun

air pollution containing gases and particles from a volcanic eruption combined with moisture from fog to create an unpleasant atmospheric cloud.

Origin of vog

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Clouds of vog comprised of water vapor, carbon dioxide, and sulfur dioxide continue to endanger residents, visitors, crops, and livestock.
Kīlauea has belched 4.2 billion gallons of lava—and it isn’t done yet | Elana Spivack | October 19, 2021 | Popular-Science
They seem not to have been noticed by De vog, whose work I have generally found to be very detailed and faithful.
Palestine | Claude Reignier Conder
The unfinished work by De vog remains, however, perhaps the most important contribution to our knowledge of this region.
Palestine | Claude Reignier Conder
But best of all in this sense is the opinion of the most talented writer of this camp, the opinion of the Academician vog.
The Kingdom of God is Within You / Christianity and Patriotism / Miscellanies | Lev N. Tolstoy
De vog sees in him the leader of a new school, but there is as yet little that is new in his manner of judging life.
Critical Studies | Ouida

I imagine that De vog does not know much of the popular songs of the south and the west of Italy.
Critical Studies | Ouida

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