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This tailpipe uses platinum and palladium to convert potential pollutants to water and CO2.
What is a Catalytic Converter?
This pollution effect is caused by the acidification of water vapor mostly with SOx from burning coal, but can also be due to NOx.
What is Acid Rain?
This is one of the most important ways to prevent or reduce indoor air pollution.
What is adequate ventillation?
This main greenhouse gas is NOT considered to be one of the 6 Criteria Air Pollutants.
What is CO2?
This agency was mandated by the Clean Air Act to set health based emission standards for many air pollutants and prevent deterioration of air quality among other things.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
All gas stations are required to have this device on their nozzles to reduce VOCs leakage into the atmosphere.
What are Vapor Recovery (or Vapor Capture) Nozzles?
These two primary pollutants are the main cause of photochemical smog.
What are NOx and VOCs?
These are two common sources of formaldehyde, one of the most common VOCs found indoors.
What are furniture, pressed wood, glues, carpet, drapes, paints, cosmetics, and foam insulation (pick two)?
This brown gas is a Criteria Air Pollutant produced anthropogenically primarily by combustion of coal or oil. In addition to contributing to photochemical smog and acid deposition it has direct respiratory health effects.
What is NOX?
This mineral is used especially for coal combustion products including to absorb SOX and neutralize acid as well as reduce the emission of mercury.
What is Lime or Crushed Limestone?
Name three primary pollutants emitted by cars.
What are NOX, VOCs, and CO (CO2 is NOT a pollutant)?
This is the energy that changes primary pollutants in the generation of photochemical smog to secondary pollutants.
What is sunlight?
These sharp microscopic fibers can cause respiratory cell damage and cancer.
What is Asbestos?
One of the 6 Criteria Air Pollutants comes in these two sizes.
What are PM2.5 and PM10?
This air cleaning method uses a charge that removes PM from air.
What is an Electrostatic Precipitator?
This form of pollution is best kept at less than 70-80 db. Traffic at a distance of 15 m is right about that level.
What is Noise Pollution?
These are two secondary pollutants in photochemical smog.
What are O3 and Peroxyacetyl Nitrate (PAN)?
This radioactive gas can seep from the ground into buildings. It can go into lungs and change into a radioactive solid, thus, staying in the lungs where it can cause cancer.
What is Radon Gas?
The emissions of this Criteria Air Pollutant was reduced after a successful cap-and-trade program was introduced by the Clean Air Act because of its role in acid deposition.
What is Sulfur Dioxide (or SO2 or SOX)?
This type of very sturdy filter is efficient at removing particles from air.
What is a Baghouse Filter or Fabric Filter?
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's regulation on vehicle miles per gallon (MPG).
What are the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards?
This effect, caused by a combination of local climate, local geography, exacerbates the effect of air pollution by trapping it over the city, especially during night.
What is a Thermal Inversion?
Fusarium, Penicillium, and Aspergillus molds can produce toxic metabolites, VOCs, and spores if left to grow with sufficient moisture indoors. These two symptoms of the indoor mold toxicity.
What are respiratory irritation, difficulty breathing, eye irritation, and headache (pick two)?
These are the 6 Criteria Air Pollutants.
What are Lead, PM, NOX, SOX, Tropospheric O3, and CO?
This air cleaner is used to remove particles by using sprayed water, sometimes with chemicals.
What is a Wet Scrubber?