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Chlorofluorocarbons Cfcs Nitrogen Oxides
1,336 wordsDramatic loss of ozone in the lower stratosphere over Antarctica was first noticed in the 1970 's by a research group from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) who were monitoring the atmosphere above Antarctica from a research station. The Halley Research Station BAS research stations in the Antarctic Rumor has it that when the first measurements were taken in 1985, the drop in ozone levels in the stratosphere were so dramatic that at first the scientists thought their instruments were defective....
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Parts Per Million Shortness Of Breath
1,183 wordsSmog has been around for a pretty long time, people just knew it as something else. Smog comes from the word smoke and fog, and that's practically what it is. It was a serious problem before, before nature and humans went unharmed in the presence of smog but now it's serious. What does all of this polluted air do to the body? The answer depends on the situation. How long a person is exposed to pollution, the type and concentration, the place, time and day, temperature, weather and more. But one ...
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Ground Level Ozone Carbon Dioxide
2,167 wordsAlternative Fuel Vehicles You Can Buy Today From the earliest days of the automotive industry alternative fuels have always competed with petroleum for powering vehicles. Nicholas Cugnot made the first self-powered road vehicle in 1769 with a steam engine, and the first gasoline automobile didn't appear until over 100 years later from Karl Benz. Through the late 19 th and early 20 th century steam and electric power remained strong contenders. The invention of the self-starter for gasoline engin...
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Sulfur Dioxide And Nitrogen Burning Of Fossil Fuels
1,264 wordsWhat is Acid Rain? Acid rain is a form of precipitation that falls to the earth as rain. For rain to be acidic it has a pH level of less than 5. 6. The corrosive nature of acid rain causes widespread damage to the environment. The problem begins with the production of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from the burning of fossil fuels, such as coal, natural gas, oil and other kinds of manufacturing. When these pollutants are in the air, they react with water and other chemicals, to form sulfuric...
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U S Government Sulfur Dioxide And Nitrogen
1,198 words... few examples of how wide spread the acid rain problem is on just man made structures. Effects on Humans When acid rain falls on humans it has really no adverse effect on the outside, humans can even swim in acidic lakes and its doesnt harm them. The serious effects start to take place on the inside of the body and that is respiratory problems. When sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions gives risk to respiratory problems such as dry coughs, asthma, headaches, eye, nose, and throat irrit...
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France And Great Britain Ultraviolet Rays
1,525 words... is so lethal that without the stratosphere ozone layer, the existence of life on earth would be nearly impossible. All living organisms would suffer from too much mutation in the organism that all of its major organs would just stop working; and the organism would die. Until the 1970 s and 1980 s, most people, including scientists, took the ozone layer more or less for granted. They assumed it was one of the earths natural features and that it would always remain the same, This attitude chan...
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2 O 2 Bodies Of Water
1,333 wordsAcid rain pollution comes in various forms. Whether its toxic waste, CFCs, or sewage, they are all hazardous to the earth. These can deplete the earth and its inhabitants of resources, causing a harmful change. A product of pollution is acid rain. We shall see that acidification is harmful to all forms of life. Acid rain is any form of precipitation that is polluted by sulphur dioxide (SO 2), and nitrogen oxides (NOX). This acid precipitation can be in the form of rain, snow, sleet, fog, or clou...
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Clean Air Act H 2 O
1,801 wordsAcid rain is exactly what it suggests- rain that is acidic. The definition of 'acid rain' is rain with a pH of below 5. 6. Rain becomes acidic because of gases that dissolve in the rain. Approximately 70 % of acid rain is a result of dissolved sulfur dioxide (SO 2) which forms Sulfuric Acid. The remaining 30 % or so comes from various Nitrogen Oxides (mostly NO 2 and NO 3 which has collectedly adopted the mane Nox). There is also a small percentage of hydrochloric acid that makes up hydrochloric...
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Reduce The Amount Nitrogen Oxides
1,778 wordsPollution The water pollution is a major environmental issue that US government as well as its citizens are concerned with. The effects of water pollution are varied. They include poisonous drinking water, poisonous food animals (due to these organisms having been exposed to toxins from the environment over their life spans), unbalanced river and lake ecosystems that can no longer support full biological diversity, deforestation from acid rain, and many other effects. These effects are, of cours...
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Low Birth Weight Nitrogen Dioxide
1,290 wordsAir Pollution Air pollution is one of the most dangerous problems of our times. Problems caused by pollution can be local and minor because of the Earth's own ability to absorb pollutants. The industrialization of society, the introduction of motorized vehicles, the explosion of the population are factors sharpening the growing air pollution problem. Carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and particulate matter belong to pollutants found in most urban areas. These pollutants are dispersed throughout t...
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Nitrogen Oxides Carbon Monoxide
1,968 wordsEnvironment as the Governments Top Priority There is a question frequently ask by many people: why is environment so important to peoples lives? It is a matter of fact that life-support systems health is told to be maintained by species which build up the whole atmosphere. It is necessary to admit that their survival is really interconnected and depends on each other. For example, different bacteria break down all organic materials and in such a way the soil is produced and then it nutrients the...
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Environmental Protection Agency Clean Air Act
1,937 wordsIn the past century, one of the greatest threats to North Americas aquatic ecosystem has been the widespread acidification of hundreds of thousands of waterways. Acid rain has effected plant and animal life within aquatic ecosystems, as well as microbiology activity by affecting the rates of decomposition and the accumulation of organic matter. What causes this poisonous rain, and what can be done to improve North Americas water quality and prevent future catastrophes? To answer these questions,...
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Ground Level Ozone Carbon Dioxide
4,309 wordsAlternative Electric Vehicles Alternative Fuels Alternative Fuel Vehicles You Can Buy Today From the earliest days of the automotive industry alternative fuels have always competed with petroleum for powering vehicles. Nicholas Cugnot made the first self-powered road vehicle in 1769 with a steam engine, and the first gasoline automobile didnt appear until over 100 years later from Karl Benz. Through the late 19 th and early 20 th century steam and electric power remained strong contenders. The i...
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Ground Level Ozone Environmental Protection Agency
2,062 wordsEng 102 December 4, 2000 Pollution Since the beginning of the 20 th century, environmentalists have been warning the world about polluting the earth and its consequences. While many countries have seriously attempted to reduce their pollution emission, others instead seem to be more concern about economic growth and production output. Therefore, pollution has been increasing since then. However, pollution must be reduced, otherwise life on earth will soon extinguish. Air pollution is one of the ...
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Nitrogen Oxides Nitrogen Dioxide
1,745 wordsGifted Photochemical Smog Photochemical Smog Gifted Chemistry IB Alternative Assessment 1997 March 19 Historically, the term smog referred to a mixture of smoke and fog, hence the name smog. The industrial revolution has been the central cause for the increase in pollutants in the atmosphere over the last three centuries. Before 1950, the majority of this pollution was created from the burning of coal for energy generation, space heating, cooking, and transportation. Under the right conditions, ...
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Nitrogen Oxides Sulfur Dioxide
1,524 wordsWith the great Pollution Introduction With the great concern surrounding the destruction of the earths atmosphere due to air pollution, the immediate and direct harm caused to the human body is often over shadowed. While many are aware that our careless use of hazardous chemicals and fossil fuels may leave the planet uninhabitable in the future, most over look the fact that they are also cause real damage to our bodies at this moment. Such pollutants cause damage to our respiratory system, leadi...
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Sport Utility Vehicles Pick Up Truck
915 wordsAccording to the SUV info link website, Roadhog is any of several vehicle type exhibiting excessive size, creating dangerous highway condition, and emitting increased pollution, also formally known as SUV (Sports Utility Vehicle) These are the enormous looking vehicles that I constantly have to seek refuge form while I am driving on the road. For some reason, all the SUV drivers seems to have this urge to run over small cars such as my modest Corolla. Surprisingly enough, the number of these peo...
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Nitrogen Oxides Nitrogen Dioxide
1,758 wordsGifted Chemistry IB Alternative Untitled Gifted Chemistry IB Alternative Assessment Photochemical Smog Historically, the term smog referred to a mixture of smoke and fog, hence the name smog. The industrial revolution has been the central cause for the increase in pollutants in the atmosphere over the last three centuries. Before 1950, the majority of this pollution was created from the burning of coal for energy generation, space heating, cooking, and transportation. Under the right conditions,...
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