Chemistry · Ch 15 — Environmental Chemistry
Air Pollution
15.3.1
Air Pollution
Air pollution is any undesirable change in air that adversely affects living organisms. It is mainly caused by the excessive discharge of undesirable foreign matter into the atmospheric air, and -- since it is a form of tropospheric/stratospheric pollution -- it is limited to the troposphere and the stratosphere. …
Figure 15.1Air Pollution
What this figure shows. A photograph of tall industrial smokestacks against a hazy, sunlit sky, each releasing thick columns of dark smoke that merge into a large brownish-yellow plume drifting over nearby buildings -- a visual of untreated industrial flue-gas emissions as …