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What are the two main gases that compose air |
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Nitrogen (78%) and Oxygen (21%) |
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Define the term pollutans |
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Harmful materials that enter the environment |
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What, specifically is air pollution |
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Harmful substance released into our atmosphere |
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O-Zone acts as a filture of a dangerous UV rays when it stays in the upper atmosphere, but is it a good or a bad thing to find at street level? |
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O-Zone is bad at the street level because it is corrosive and breaks down rubber. It can be poisonous. |
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Where do chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) come from? |
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Spray cans, refigerators and air conditioners |
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a colorless, oderless, radioactive gas |
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How does radon get into your house? What does it do to you? |
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Decaying radium from the soil in drawn into your basement, mixes with air, is inhaled and causes cancer |
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Describe nitrogen dioxide |
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brown gas that gives smog its brown color |
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