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| What is the EPA limit for the percentage of carbon dioxide? |
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Definition
| The EPA limit for the percentage of carbon dioxide was less than 6%. |
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| What is the EPA limit for the % of carbon monoxide? |
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Definition
The EPA limit for carbon monoxide is 1.2%. |
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Term
| What is the suggested limit for NO? |
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Definition
| The suggested limit for NO is 10 ppm. |
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Term
| Why may a car not pass inspection? |
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Definition
| It may be too COLD or it may have a bad CATALYTIC CONVERTER. |
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Term
| If a car is too COLD or it has a bad CATALYTIC CONVERTER, what might happen? |
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Definition
If a car is too COLD or it has a BAD CATALYTIC CONVERTER, it might not pass inspection. |
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| What could cause the carbon monoxide levels to be too high? |
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Definition
| The carbon monoxide levels may be too high if the car is cold or there is a bad catalytic converter, which may cause the car not to pass its inspection. |
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Term
| What could cause carbon dioxide levels to be too low? |
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Definition
| If carbon dioxide levels are too low, there may be air in the bag. |
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Term
| If there is air in the bag, what might happen to the carbon dioxide levels? |
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Definition
| The carbon dioxide levels may be too low. |
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Term
| What could cause a high oxygen reading? |
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Definition
| A high oxygen reading could be caused by air in the sample bag. |
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Term
| What does a lot of air in the sample bag cause? |
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Definition
| A lot of air in the sample bag causes a high oxygen reading and low carbon dioxide reading. |
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Term
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Definition
| A low oxygen reading and high carbon dioxide reading might be caused by letting air into the bag. |
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Term
| What could cause nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide to be high? |
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Definition
Nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide might be high because: cold car engine needs a tune-up
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Term
| What is the EPA limit for carbon monoxide? |
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Definition
| 1.2% is the EPA limit for carbon monoxide. |
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| What is the EPA limit for carbon dioxide? |
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Definition
| The EPA limit for carbon dioxide is 6%. |
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Term
| What is the EPA limit for carbon monoxide? |
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Definition
| The EPA limit for carbon monoxide is 1.2%. |
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Term
| What is the EPA limit for carbon dioxide? |
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Definition
| The EPA limit for carbon dioxide is 6%. |
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Term
| What is the EPA limit for nitric oxide? |
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Definition
| The EPA limit is about 10 ppm. |
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Term
Why wouldn't the car pass inspection? |
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Definition
The carbon monoxide may be too high because of: bad catalytic converter too cold outside
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Term
| Why might a car's oxygen be too high? |
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Definition
| A car's oxygen might be too low because there was too much air left in the bag. |
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Term
| What could cause the car's carbon dioxide to be too low and the car's oxygen to be too high? |
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Definition
| The car's carbon dioxide levels may be too low and the car's oxygen levels may be too high if there was too much air left in the sample bag. |
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Term
| What does a complete combustion include? |
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Definition
| A complete combusion includes a carbon element plus oxygen --> carbon dioxide plus H20 plus heat/energy. A complete combustion moves pistons up and down and is 100% efficient. |
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Term
| What does incomplete combustion include? |
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Definition
| Incomplete combustion includes carbon dioxide plus carbon monoxide plus H20 plus heat/energy plus hydrocarbon fragments plus soot. |
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Term
| What measures carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide? |
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Definition
| Carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide is measured by a gas chromotograph. |
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Term
| What does a GAS CHROMOTOGRAPH measure? |
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Definition
| A gas chromotograph measures the levels of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. |
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Term
| What measures carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide? |
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Definition
| Carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide are both measured by the GAS CHROMOTOGRAPH. |
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Term
| What measures carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide? |
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Definition
| The gas chromotograph measures carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. |
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Term
| What does a GAS CHROMOTOGRAPH measure? |
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Definition
| The gas chromotograph measures carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide. |
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Term
| What measures both phosphate and nitric oxide? |
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Definition
| The visible spectrophotometer measures both phosphate and nitric oxide. |
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Term
| What does the visible spectrophotometer measure? |
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Definition
| The visible spectrophotometer measures both phosphate and nitric oxide. |
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Term
| What measures both phosphate and nitric oxide? |
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Definition
| The visible spectrophotometer measures both phosphate and nitric oxide. |
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Term
| What is industrial smog/pollution? |
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Definition
| Industrial smog is like the London smog in the 1840-60s which was soft coal (bituminus) and 4000 people died. |
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Term
| What is industrial smog/pollution? |
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Definition
| Industrial smog/pollution is like the 1840-1860 London smog in which soft coal was burned and 4000 people DIED from bitumus coma. |
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Term
| What is photochemical smog/pollution? |
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Definition
Boston has PHOTOCHEMICAL pollution as opposed to industrial smog/pollution (London, bitumus coal, 4000 people died) because it has a brown haze from high traffic that has bleached vegetation. |
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Term
| What does a CATALYTIC CONVERTER do? |
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Definition
| A catalytic converter converts carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide. |
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Term
| What does a catalytic converter do? |
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Definition
| A catalytic converter takes CO --> CO2. |
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Term
| What converts carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide? |
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Definition
| A catalytic converter converts carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide. |
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Term
| What converts carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide? |
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Definition
| A CATALYTIC CONVERTER converts carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide. |
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Term
| What converts carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide? |
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Definition
| A catalytic converter converts carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide. |
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Term
| What does a CATALYTIC CONVERTER do? |
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Definition
| A catalytic converter converts CO to CO2. |
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Term
| What is the strong acid formed from auto exhaust? |
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Definition
| The strong acid formed is NO + NO2 --> NO8 + H20 --> HNO3. |
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Term
What does the equation NO + NO2 --> NO8 + H20 --> HNO3 represent? |
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Definition
| NO + NO2 --> NO8 + H20 --> HNO3 represents strong acid forming from auto exhaust. |
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Term
| What does PLATINUM do in a catalytic converter? |
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Definition
| Platinum acts as a catalyst in a CATALYTIC CONVERTER. |
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Term
| What is a catalyst in a CATALYTIC CONVERTER and what does it cost? |
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Definition
| A catalyst in a catalytic coverter is platinum and it costs $1,500. |
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Term
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Definition
| Platinum is a catalyst in a CATALYTIC CONVERTER and it costs $1,500. |
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