Air Pollution

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Air Pollution

• Particulate matter
• Carbon monoxide
• Ground level ozone
• Primary air pollutants
• Acid
• Base
• Neutral
• Burning fuels

• Construction and agriculture major contributors
• Tasteless, odorless, gas that lowers oxygen
  levels carried by the blood
• Pollutant formed when auto emissions react with
  oxygen and U.V. rays
• Carbon monoxide, sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides
• pH less than 7
• pH over 7
• pH of 7
• Cause of most air pollution

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Air Pollution

• Electric power plants
• Burning fossil fuels
• Midwestern and eastern states
• Secondary pollution
• Indoor pollutants
• Transportation
• Temperature ( thermal) inversions

• Cause of 2/3 of sulfur dioxide pollution
• Contributes most to acid rain
• Most of the acid rain in Canada is released as
  pollution from
• Ground level ozone in the presence of sunlight
• Radon and asbestos
• Largest producer of primary air pollutants in the
  U.S.
• Warm air above keeps cooler air at the surface
  from moving up