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| The Clean Air Act | The law that involve the government in regulating pollution to keep air clean. |
| The Acid Rain Program ACP | Part of the clean air act that tries to reduce SOx and NOx |
| The Killer London Fog | A 1952 event casued by an anticyclone and temperature inversion that blanketed London with smog and killed 4000+. |
| NOx | Nitrogen Oxides are acid rain causing pollutants that come from the burning of fossil fuels and natural sources such as volcanoes. |
| SOx | (Mostly Sulfur DioxideSO2) SOx are acid rain causing pollutants that come from the burning of fossil fuels and natural sources such as volcanoes. |
| Clean Coal Technologies | Using "wet scrubbers", low sulfur coal, and other strategies to reduce pollution from power plants that use coal to make electricity. |
| Acid Rain | Refers to "unnaturally" acidic rain which has a pH lower than 5.6. |
| Acid Clouds | In mountains like the Appalachians are like a fog which directly damages trees. |
| Lead (Pb) | A sometimes air pollutant and element links to nervous system and other health problems. Used to be in leaded gasoline. |
| Temperature Inversion | Where the temperature of air above a city keeps smog trapped on the surface. |
| Bad Air Warnings | Some cities such as New York, LA, and Tokyo have such bad air quality on some days that warning are issued (similar to storm warnings). |
| Particulates | Dust, smoke, soot, ash, and other pollutants that are little tiny pieces of solid matter in the air. |
| Fossil Fuels | Coal, Oil, Gas, and other fuels obtaining energy from the burning of hydrocarbons. |
| CO | Carbon monoxide. A poisonous gas caused by burning or combustion. |
| Electrical Plants | The places where electricity is made and put out on the power grid. There are many coal burning plants which cause significant air pollution. |
| Clean Coal Technologies | Specific ways of keeping coal burning from being as bad for the environment as it can be. |
| Alternative Fuel technologies | Some fuels create less or no air pollution when they are used. Hydrogen fuel cells, solar power, and nuclear energy do not make air pollution. |
| Anthropogenic Air Pollutants | Human additions to the environment usually not found in nature. |
| Ozone | A molecule made of three oxygen atoms. |
| Statospheric Ozone | Good): The ozone layer in the stratosphere. |
| Surface Ozone | Bad): Down here where we can breathe it; it has been described like getting a sunburn in your lungs. |
| Ozone Hole | Refers to a hole and/or the thinning of the atmosphere layer of ozone that blocks UV rays thought to cause health problems. |
| Acid Rain Causing Pollutants | Pollutant like NOx and SOx, specifically related to causing acid rain. |
| Greenhouse Pollutants | Specific pollutants known to have an effect on the Earth’s natural greenhouse effect, such as Methane, CO2, N2O, and others… |
| Chlorofluorocarbons | these are a group of chemicals that used to be widely used in fridges, AC units and spray cans, but have been banned for the most part, because they break apart the good ozone in the atmosphere. |
| Abbrv. CFC’s | Chlorofluorocarbons |
| Catalytic Converter | A device installed on a cars exhaust pipes before the muffler to reduce air pollutants. |
