Toxins
A toxin that affects neuro tissues is called:
What is a Neurotoxin?
A lightning strike can create this pollutant.
What is NO2 or O3?
A term that means the accumulation of a substance in living tissue.
What is bioaccumulation?
What is photochemical smog?
This law sets air pollution limits in the US.
What is the Clean Air Act?
Childhood exposure to this heavy metal neurotoxin causes damage to the central nervous system and can lead to developmental issues.
What is lead?
Released from combustion, soil mobilization, and volcanoes, and cause respiratory problems and allergies and measured in microns.
What is Particulate Matter (PM)?
What did this 1990 amendment to the CAA allow?
The cooperate trading of SO2
Acid rain is associated with this anthropomorphic action.
What is the burning of fossil fuels?
Vapor recovery fuel nozzles reduce this pollutant.
What are VOCs?
This leaks into homes from hard rock and is the second leading cause of lung cancer.
In this layer of the atmosphere is Ozone (O3) harmful.
What is the troposphere?
Chemicals used in cooling and refrigerators have a lifetime of 15 years in the atmosphere.
What are hydrofluorocarbons or CFCs.
Pollutants impact the economy by:
What is increasing health care, infrastructure repairs, etc, etc.
This system in cars reduces pollutants using a honeycomb catalyst.
What is a catalytic converter?
This carcinogen is found in old housing ventilation.
What is Asbestos?
This chemical is produced mostly from furniture material decay.
What is formaldehyde?
The interaction of different substances and creates something worse.
What is synergism?
Acid rain damages many structures, particularly if they are made with this particular stone...
Wet and dry scrubbers use this to knock SO2 and NO2 out of the exhaust.
What are calcium-based solutions?
This neurotoxin is released in coal and oil production, and gold mining.
This pollutant comes from combustion, volcanoes, and fires, it is also an asphyxiant.
What is Carbon Monoxide (CO)?
A primary pollutant that has undergone a transformation in the presence of sunlight, water, oxygen, or other compounds.
What is a secondary pollutant?
Disrupted migration patterns and hunting abilities, are an effect of these two pollutants:
What is sound and noise pollution?
Coal power plants use this to ionize PMs and remove pollutants:
What is an electrostatic precipitator or scrubber?