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Pollution

Pollution is the process of giving out contaminants such as smoke and carbon dioxide, and too much of a certain product such as light, heat and sound that both cause harm to the environment.

8,185 Questions

How does nitrogen dioxide contribute to the creation of acid precipitation if it undergoes similar transformation steps as sulphur dioxide?

Nitrogen dioxide reacts with water to form nitric acid and NO:3NO2 + OH· → 2HNO3 +NO

Note: The NO can react with oxygen (2NO+O2-->NO2) to produce further nitric acid

What is the synonym for Dreary?

dull, boring, tedious, drab, tiresome, monotonous, humdrum, uneventful

How much pollution does launching a spaceship cause?

Not a great deal because the main fuels are hydrogen and oxygen, so the exhaust is merely water-vapour. Solid propellants will produce other gases that may be polluting, but the number of launches world-wide, and the individual volumes of gas, are very small compared to anything else.

How does littering happen?

littering happens when people are careless and throw their trash anywhere

What is emitted mainly during a nuclear detonation?

Shockwaves and thermal radiation are mainly emiited in a nuclear detonation. When the nuclear blasts hits the ground, kinetic energy from the impact will be released, similar to an earthquake, causing shockwaves. Thermal radiation, or electromagnetic radiation, a result of energy released from the nuclear reaction of two nitrogen atoms forming a carbon and an oxygen atom, causes fires, thermal burns and blindness.

How does oil spills affect duckweed growth?

Oil spills are very bad for Duckweed growth. This is because duckweed need oxygen and oil spills keep oxygen from reaching the plant.

What is gun pollution?

Gun pollution is the proliferation, in the social sphere, of guns and rifles that cause and increase fear, pain, or death to humans and animals.

Is the greatest source of air pollution volcanic eruptions or burning fossil fuels?

Definitely the burning of fossil fuels. Volcanoes emit around 100,000,000 tons of CO2 a year. Man-made emissions of CO2 comes to about 10,000,000,000 tons of CO2 per year. So volcanoes emit around 1/100th of CO2 that we do.

Why do people think that the BP oil spill was all BP's fault?

They didn't maintain the link well enough and also instead of getting right onto it they sat around waiting for someone else to come do it for them. They could have stopped it in just under 3 days using a method of setting concrete on top of the leak or of course the most simplest method (SWITCHING THE PUMPS OFF). But that would have cost them more money.

When will the results of 13th National science olympiad come?

the results are going to come online on 22 nd January 2011

What the cause of unequal distribution of water in Africa?

THere are places where water is abundant, and the people living there get to consume it. They don't have the money to create good enough infrastructure to pipe the water to places where it is less abundant.

Who creates water pollution?

Answer - Mostly humans cause pollution. Of course nature causes a certain amount of pollution naturally but not to the extent of being harmful to us at the moment.

What is a pollution free energy resource?

All energy resources are pollution free. It is extracting some of the energy from those resources that causes pollution. Extracting energy, by any means, from any resource, will cause pollutions of some kind somewhere in that cycle.

There is no way to extract energy from anything without doing so in some way.

Why doesn't plastic sink?

Plastics do not all behave the same as their composition and additive packages vary. Some have densities greater than water and would sink, others have densities less than water an float. many of the commonly encountered plastics (polyethylene,, polypropylene, etc.) fall into this latter classification. Higher density plastics include Silicones with densities ranging from 1.68 - 2.00 g/cm3

Why does a geothermal power station not need cooling towers?

Because the excess steam is condensed into water and and goes back underwater where it is reheated for later use.

What is improper sanitation?

Improper sanitation or poor sanitation refers to the unhygienic condition that might affect the environment. The most common disease that poor sanitation may cause is diarrhea.

A single car give off how much pollution?

It depends on the amount driven. Every liter of gasoline burned releases about 2-3 kg of carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides. That's 16 to 20 lb per gallon for Americans who aren't metrified.

What are the solutions Ocean pollution?

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you could build a dome around your communtiy to protect it from ocean pollution

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The control of pollution of the oceans is simple, in a way: Create less, don't dump material into the sea.

However some ocean pollution problems have gotten away from us:

  • Carbon dioxide in the water is changing the H affecting marine organisms. Control will reuire all of the global warming solutions to recuce carbon dioxide emissions and time for natural processes to reduce the concentrations.
  • Oil pollution is endemic over the seas. The removal f floating oils and emulsified ils will require natural removal and human interventon whereever the concentrations become high enough.
  • Plastics in the ocean accumulate in the famous "trash vortexes" and will require mechanical harvesting and recycling to remove them

How does leaded petrol harms the environmrnt?

It doesn't. Environmentalists just want us to believe it does.

How does pollution that leads to the death of plant plankton can affect life on earth?

Plankton are at the very very bottom of the food Chain. So, if they go extinct then whatever is the next up the food chain will become extinct and so on. If Plankton go extinct, life as we know it is over.