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Air pollution is one of the major problems of the present world.
There are so many causes that can pollute the air completely and spread ---.
On the basis of the --- it can be distinguished into different types. Mainly the type of the air pollution depends on some of the --- and most of them are composed of ---.
Some important and common types that have great effect on the air of the environment and they also take part in spreading different types of dangerous diseases. |
different types of dangerous diseases
different causes of air pollution
natural resources
natural sources |
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TYPES OF AIR POLLUTION Smog:
The first type of the air pollution is the smog. It is defined as when the smoke present in the atmosphere after emitting from different sources is combined with the --- present in the air, a mixture formed that is referred to as smog.
Basically different types of ---or--- are responsible for the formation of the smog. |
fog
factories or the industries |
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Smog....
When the industries do their production from different materials, they can use different types of chemicals for the ---,---or--- processes, as a result these chemicals can produce --- that can emit in the form of the smoke from the chimney of the factory and form a --- and cause different harmful diseases.
Living in the smog is equal to the living with ---; it can cause ---. |
cleaning, refining or some kind of production
different types of toxic materials
bond with the fog
smokers
serious respiratory diseases |
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Green House Effect: Another type of the air pollution is the green house effect. It is that type of air pollution that is formed due to the ------.
It is charactered when the gases called as green house gases when move upward and combine with the atmosphere and then return back to the earth and destroy different types of things such as ---4 etc. |
contamination of several important gases with the air
crops , plants, human lives, livestock |
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Green House Effect....
These green house gases are basically --- in number and they are; ---6. Basically the pollution is raised due to the burning of ---, it is very harmful for the --- and can also cause ---. |
six
methane, sulphur, nitrogen, carbon monoxide, hydrogen and zone
fossil fuel
human skin
some kind of cancer |
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Accidental air Pollution: It is the type of pollution that is characterized due to the causes that are ---.
Commonly it is defined as the type of air pollution that is generated due to the different types of fuel consumption by the --- or when ---- different types of gases are evolved that are mixed with the air and pollute the air.
Sometimes this pollution is also spread due to the --- or different types of ---of the manufacturing plants. |
accidentally in nature
vehicles
the forest are burnt
plant leakage
blasts in the furnaces |
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Industrial Air Pollution:
Another type of air pollution that pollutes the environment as a result of the --- is called as industrial pollution.
Commonly it is characterized due to the working of the --- and also the different plants that are used to manufacture different types of ---or---. |
industrial processes
thermal plants fertilizers or pesticides |
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Industrial Air Pollution.....
The reactions that are used to produce different types of building material such as ---or--- etc. also encourage the production or --- materials for producing air pollution.
On the whole the air pollution due to the --- is called as industrial pollution. Different type of --- also contributes in that type of pollution. |
cement or steel
toxic
industrial wastes
atomic units |
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Transport Related Air Pollution: It is that type of air pollution that is characterized due to the ----ing by different types of vehicles used for transportation.
As fuel such as petrol or diesel burnt in the engine can emit different types of --- in the form of smoke.
This pollution can cause different types of ---. |
smoke emitting
poisonous gases
harmful diseases |
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Sources of Air Pollution
The combustion of gasoline and other hydrocarbon fuels in ---3 produces several primary pollutants: ---3, as well as large quantities of particulates, chiefly---. |
automobiles, trucks, and jet airplanes nitrogen oxides, gaseous hydrocarbons, and carbon monoxide
lead |
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In the presence of sunlight, nitrogen oxides combine with hydrocarbons to form a secondary class of pollutants, the ---, among them ozone and the eye-stinging --- (PAN). |
photochemical oxidants
peroxyacetylnitrate |
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Nitrogen oxides also react with oxygen in the air to form ---, a foul-smelling brown gas.
In urban areas like Los Angeles where transportation is the main cause of air pollution, nitrogen dioxide --- the air, blending with other contaminants and the atmospheric water vapor, to produce ---. |
nitrogen dioxide
tints
brown smog |
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Although the use of --- has reduced smog-producing compounds in motor vehicle exhaust emissions,
studies have shown that in so doing the converters produce ---, which contributes substantially to global warming. |
catalytic converters
nitrous oxide |
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In cities, air may be severely polluted not only by transportation but also by the burning of fossil fuels (oil and coal) in ---4 and by the incineration of ---.
The massive combustion produces tons of ---,---ae responsible for the gray smog of cities like New York and Chicago, along with enormous quantities of --- (which also may be result from burning coal and oil).
These oxides...... rust ---, damage ---, decompose ---, tarnish ---, and kill ---.
Air pollution from cities also affects ---for many miles downwind. |
generating stations, factories, office buildings, and home garbage
ash, soot, and other particulates
sulfur oxides
iron building stone nylon silver plants |
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Every industrial process exhibits its own pattern of air pollution. Petroleum refineries are responsible for --- and --- pollution.
---and--- mills, --- smelters, ---and---mills, ---and--- mills, --- plants, ---and--- plants —all discharge vast amounts of various particulates.
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extensive hydrocarbon particulate
Iron and steel mills, metal smelters, pulp and paper mills, chemical plants, cement and asphalt plants |
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Uninsulated high-voltage power lines --- the adjacent air, forming --- and other hazardous pollutants.
Airborne pollutants from other sources include ---,---,---, and dust from ---,--- and ---. |
ionize ozone
insecticides, herbicides, radioactive fallout,
and dust from fertilizers, mining operations, and livestock feedlots |