Guide Student Name: Mzevinar Gabaidze Subject: Chemistry Grade: MYP 10 Tbilisi 2013 Project Title: Acidic rain and air pollution Options: * Use your knowledge in chemistry of hydrogen and provide suggestion how world’s energy crisis can be solved. * Use your knowledge in chemistry of sulfur and nitrogen and provide suggestion how air pollution in your city can be reduce. * Use your knowledge in chemistry of oxygen and provide suggestion how ozone layer depletion
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famous for its air pollution‚ which haunts the lives of thousands of Hong Kong people and wastes billions of dollars of the government and the private sectors every year. It is an unchanging fact that air pollution in Hong Kong not only results in a waste of massive amounts of money‚ but also results in deterioration on the overall health standard of the Hong Kong population. No doubt that it is the task of the Government of Hong Kong to work out measures to tackle air pollution. Nevertheless‚ it
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excerpt will look at the stakeholders that are impacted by air pollution in Indiana. The three stakeholders that will be discussed in this paper are the Environmental Protection Agency‚ the Occupational Safety and Health Administration‚ and the Association of Air Pollution Agencies. The paper will define these agencies and their reason for existence‚ outline the connection of these stakeholders to air pollution‚ and the impact air pollution has on them. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) The
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APES Study Guide Air Pollution Air Pollution (Endangered Global Commons) Natural Air Pollutants Volcanoes sulfur oxides‚ particulates Forest Fires Carbon monoxides‚ carbon dioxide‚ Nitrogen oxides‚ particulates Wind storms Dust Living Plants Hydrocarbons‚ pollen Decaying plants Methane‚ hydrogen sulfide Sea Salt particulates Major Air Pollutants Carbon Monoxide From transportation Causes headache‚ dizziness‚ decreased tolerance to exercise
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to Reduce Air Pollution ASDF SCI/275 September 4‚ 2011 Kristal Davis Fadtke Using Clean Coal Technologies to Reduce Air Pollution Air pollution is of pronounced concern in the media lately. Some of the effects of air pollution include the increase of carbon in the atmosphere which contributes to the global warming effect. The effects have been felt with record temperatures on the east coast and in the Midwestern United States this summer. One major contribution to the pollution is the use
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Air pollution Air pollution is the introduction of chemicals‚ particulate matter‚ or biological materials that cause harm or discomfort to humans or other living organisms‚ or cause damage to the natural environment or built environment‚ into the atmosphere. The atmosphere is a complex dynamic natural gaseous system that is essential to support life on planet Earth. Stratospheric ozone depletion due to air pollution has long been recognized as a threat to human health as well as to the Earth’s
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presence of pollution in every part of the World. The problem of pollution has been around for many years and has caused various devastations to the ecosystem. Pollution is the presence of contaminants into the environment which causes instability‚ harm or discomfort to the Environment. Pollution can take the form of chemical substances or energy (noise‚ heat‚ and light). The causes of pollution can be classified into two types - man-made pollution and natural pollution. Natural pollution does not have
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(goods and services whose consumption is considered unhealthy‚ degrading or otherwise socially undesirable) have been overproduced and priced inappropriately not accounting for external costs to the third party. In this case the external cost is air pollution in Beijing‚ which has caused damage to the environment and health. The main source of this negative externality came from over production of multiple products and car emissions‚ which has in turn made Beijing one of the most polluted cities in
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Causes of air pollution There are many different chemical substances that contribute to air pollution. These chemicals come from a variety of sources. Among the many types of air pollutants are nitrogen oxides‚ carbon monoxides‚ and organic compounds that can evaporate and enter the atmosphere. Air pollutants have sources that are both natural and human. Now‚ humans contribute substantially more to the air pollution problem. Forest fires‚ volcanic eruptions‚ wind erosion‚ pollen dispersal‚
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Indoor Air Pollution: Effects to Peoples Health Approximately 93% of our life we spend indoors (Vladimira Bukerova‚ personal communication‚ February 2012). Even though this may sound crazy it‚ is true. Weather people stay at home or at work; school or go for shopping they are inside of a building breathing‚ living the same air most of their daily life. There are different issues now days that are destroy our air and when talking about them people immediately will thing about the pollution caused
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