Clean Air Act
Federal agency that sets and enforces rules and standards of the Clean Air Act.
Environmental Protection Agency
Provides the activation energy needed for tropospheric ozone formation.
Sunlight
This potentially deadly pollutant is a colorless and odorless gas that displaces oxygen carried by red blood cells.
Carbon monoxide
Facilitates reactions within hot automobile engine exhaust to convert NOx, CO, and unburnt hydrocarbons into CO2, N2, O2, and H2O.
Catalytic Converter
Source of Mr. Abdale's most detested seasonal sound.
Leaf blower
Pollutant that has been reduced by approximately 98% since the Clean Air Act was adopted.
Lead
Due to environmental factors such as heavy traffic and low albedo surfaces, photochemical smog formation is most common in this type of area.
Urban
Along with carbon monoxide, this indoor air pollutant is most common in developing nations.
Particulate matter
Electrostatic precipitators and baghouse filters are used to reduced smokestack emissions of this pollutant.
Particulate matter
Aquatic noise pollution is most disruptive to this type of organism.
Whales and/or dolphins
Pollutant released by fossil fuel combustion, metal smelting, oil refining.
Sulfur dioxide
Atmospheric phenomenon that can cause smog to linger for prolonged periods of time.
Thermal Inversion
Indoor air pollutant previously used in insulation and other building materials; known cause of cancer and lung damage.
Asbestos
Pollution control method that captures VOCs released while refueling an automobile.
Vapor recovery nozzle
This pollutant can indirectly harm aquatic life by increasing the solubility of aluminum ions (Al3+) in rocks and soil, leaching them into nearby surface waters.
Acid precipitation
Of the six criteria pollutants under the Clean Air Act, this is the only one that is almost strictly classified as a secondary pollutant.
Ozone
Pollution that promotes photochemical Smog build-up by preventing natural, overnight ozone destruction.
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)
This indoor ailment may cause symptoms such as nausea, fatigue, coughing, sneezing, and eye irritation.
Sick building syndrome
Air pollution control method that can reduce NOx formation while burning coal.
Fluidized bed combustion
When interacting with atmospheric water, this secondary pollutant (of sulfur dioxide) dissociates to form sulfate ions and the hydrogen ions that lower the pH of precipitation.
Sulfuric acid
In 1980, the federal agency empowered by the Clean Air Act established NAAQS for the six criteria pollutants. What does the acronym, NAAQS, stand for?
National Ambient Air Quality Standards
Volatile organic compounds react with nitric oxide to form this component of photochemical smog.
Peroxyacetyl Nitrate (PAN)
Second (to smoking) leading cause of lung cancer in the United States.
Radon-222
Air pollution control device that can be used to remove BOTH particulate matter AND gases (such as NOx and SOx) from industrial exhaust streams.
Wet scrubbers
Cation Exchange Capacity