Toxins
a high-temperature exothermic redox chemical reaction between a fuel and an oxidant, usually atmospheric oxygen, that produces oxidized, often gaseous products, in a mixture termed as smoke.
What is combustion?
The number of major pollutants as defined by the United States government
What is 6?
Reduced visibility, usually as a result of suspended particulate matter.
What is Haze?
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. Previously found in paint and gasoline.
What is lead?
a meteorological phenomenon that develops when cool air is trapped at the ground under a layer of warm air
What is a temperature inversion?
a colorless, highly toxic, and flammable gas at room temperature. It is used in the production of fertilizer, paper, plywood, and some resins. It is also used as a food preservative and in household products, such as antiseptics, medicines, and cosmetics.
What is formaldehyde?
Results in changes in pH to soil and water, making them inhabitable to species with low tolerances, as well as increases the erosion to rocks and structures.
What is Acid Deposition (Acid Rain)?
a large group of chemicals that are found in many products we use to build and maintain our homes. Once these chemicals are in our homes, they are released or “off-gas” into the indoor air we breathe.
What are VOCs?
A radioactive gas that can be released into home by the decay of uranium
What is Radon-222?
Solids released from combustion, soil mobilization, and volcanoes, and cause respiratory problems and allergies.
What is Particulate Matter (PM)?
The logarithmic scale used to measure the level of sound in a particular area
What is Decibels?
an important heat-trapping gas, or greenhouse gas, that comes from the extraction and burning of fossil fuels (such as coal, oil, and natural gas), from wildfires, and from natural processes like volcanic eruptions.
What is carbon dioxide?
This system in cars reduces pollutants using a honeycomb catalyst.
What is a catalytic converter?
What is Sick Building Syndrome?
Smog relating to or caused by fossil fuel combustion is called this.
What is Sulfurous, Industrial, London, or Gray Smog?
Caused by humans
What is anthropogenic?
Acid rain damages many structures, particularly if they are made with this particular stone...
an air pollution control device which uses a liquid to remove contaminants from a gas stream. The removal process is achieved by bringing the gas stream into contact with the liquid, which facilitates mass transfer of the contaminants into the liquid.
What is a wet scrubber?
This carcinogen is found in old housing ventilation.
What is Asbestos?
This pollutant comes from incomplete 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?
Coal power plants use this to ionize particles and remove pollutants: