Ozone

Air pollution has been a growing concern in the New England area over the past few decades. Air pollution can come from many different sources including stationary sources like factories and power plants, mobile sources like vehicles, agricultural sources found from gassy animals and their waste products, as well as natural sources like wildfires, dust storms and other natural occurrences. Various cities around New England have identified the sources that are contributing to the air pollution…

According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency or EPA, “The San Joaquin Valley has some of the nation’s worst air quality, failing to meet federal health standards for both ozone (smog) and particulate pollution. Ground level ozone pollution has a corrosive effect on the lungs which may cause a decrease in lung functions while particulate matter such as soot, can enter the lungs and stick to them causing heart problems and breathing complications There…

“Other pollutants make their way up into the upper atmosphere, causing a thinning of the protective Ozone layer.”(“Concerned about air pollution”). Due to the thinning of the Ozone as mentioned in Concerned about air pollution, it causes problems to the vegetation on the planet. “By making sensitive vegetation, ozone makes plants more susceptible to disease.”(“Health”). In the environment, multiple alterations have occurred in the world. One would be acid-rain…

damage to plants’ leaves (Gray). Ozone, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide are strong oxidants and can do harm to the leaves. For example, ozone can produce brown spots on the leaves. Sulfur dioxide can bleach the leaves and make them mottled. Nitrogen dioxide can also cause lesions to leaves. Physical injuries not only affect the appearance of plants but also weaken the functions of leaves. Air pollution can negative affect plants’ growth. Particles, such as ozone, can block stomata in the…

Ever since humans have started polluting causing the ozone layer to become thinner, allowing more UV rays from the sun to come. This correlates directly into stronger UV rays entering earth's atmosphere and harming living things all over. Some creatures that are the most susceptible to these UV rays are amphibians. There are three kinds of UV rays, UV-A, UV-B, UV-C. The kind that hurts the amphibians the most is UV-B because Most molecules do not absorb the higher UV-A wavelengths and most of…

with is explaining to people how this issue will take time develop. Because people think that this issue is nothing because nothing too extreme has happened to prove it. However if we look at the ozone layer we can clearly see that time is indeed running out. If we don’t act soon we can cause the ozone layer to become completely depleted and humanity will end as we know it. If we can tell people how pressing and the damage that this issue can cause then they will get scared and pick up their act…

pollution. Air pollution is hazardous and it affects the health and the environment. According to the U.S National Library of Medicine, air pollution is a mixture of solid particles and gases in the air. One of its major reasons for air pollution is Ozone, a gas. We get chemicals into the air from factories, dust, pollen, car emissions, and mold spores. Air pollution is a serious matter. Some of these chemicals are poisonous and can increase health problems and cause deaths. There are several…

cancer is so common, that one in every five people will get it in their lifetime. Pollution is playing a very important role in these statistics. Every year that pollution is let into our atmosphere, the higher the chance our ozone layer will keep depleting. The depletion of the ozone layer lets in high levels of UVA and UVB rays, which are playing a large role in the formation of skin cancer. Ways to protect the skin are: Always wear sunscreen (even in the winter or on cloudy days. Cloudy days…

Solubility property of ozone is dependent on several extrinsic factors such as temperature, pressure, composition of the medium, pH, gas flow rate, etc. Henry’s law says that the pressure of the gas exerts above the liquid is directly proportional to the solubility of the ozone (Bablon et al., 1991). De Smedt et al. (2001) revealed that solubility of ozone is dependent on pH, temperature and type of additives of the aqueous solution. Levanov et al. (2008) found that solubility of ozone decreased…

Human Involvement in Climate Change There is no doubt that the earth at an alarming rate is getting warmer, but the debate is whether the climate change is caused by humans. In the past one hundred years the carbon emissions have risen significantly, also in the past one hundred years the earth's surface temperature has increased at an alarming rate. What connects this to human activity is the fact that in the past 100 years many factories have been built emitting carbon (Harvey 1) , but most…