Carbon ______- colorless, CO- car exhaust, CO- reacts with hemoglobin in red Oxides odorless gas; highly burning forests or blood cells and reduces blood’s ability grasslands, tobacco to transport O2. Chronic exposure leads smoke, open fires, to asthma, emphysema, mental inefficient stoves impairment, coma, death ______- colorless, CO2- most is from the CO2- global warming and climate odorless gas result of the natural change carbon cycle; the rest is from Catalytic Converters- converts burning fossil fuels, dangerous CO emissions from cars to clearing CO2 CO2 absorbing forests Nitrogen ____- colorless gas NO- combustion NO- photochemical smog, can irritate Oxides and that forms when engines and coal eyes, nose, and throat and aggravate Nitric Acid nitrogen and burning power plants asthma , suppress plant growth oxygen gas react (Lightening and NOx refers In the air, NO bacteria can also Nitric Acid- photochemical smog, acid to NO and reacts with O2 to produce NO as part of deposition NO2 form NO2 (a the nitrogen cycle.) reddish brown gas) ___________- NO2 reacts with water vapor to form nitric acid (component of acid rain) greenhouse N2O- emitted from N2O- leads to an increase in global gas fertilizers, animal warming waste, and from the burning of fossil fuels Sulfur ____- colorless gas SO2- combustion of Both SO2 and Sulfuric Acid- acid Dioxides with irritating odor coal, oil refining, and deposition, reduce visibility, aggravate and Sulfuric smelting of sulfur breathing problems, damage Acid oxides trees, soil and aquatic life, corrode metals, and damage paint and stone on ________ acid- SO2 buildings and statues. in the air is converted to sulfuric acid (H2SO4) and sulfate salts Name Characteristics Sources Effects Particulates Suspended Most comes from SPM is linked to adverse respiratory ________________ natural sources like effects, reduce visibility, corrode Matter (SPM) metals
Carbon Oxides ______- colorless, odorless gas; highly ______- colorless, odorless gas CO- car exhaust, burning forests or grasslands, tobacco smoke, open fires, inefficient stoves CO2- most is from the result of the natural carbon cycle; the rest is from burning fossil fuels, clearing CO2 absorbing forests CO- reacts with hemoglobin in red blood cells and reduces blood’s ability to transport O2. Chronic exposure leads to asthma, emphysema, mental impairment, coma, death CO2- global warming and climate change Catalytic Converters- converts dangerous CO emissions from cars to CO2 Nitrogen Oxides and Nitric Acid NOx refers to NO and NO2 ____- colorless gas that forms when nitrogen and oxygen gas react In the air, NO reacts with O2 to form NO2 (a reddish brown gas) ___________- NO2 reacts with water vapor to form nitric acid (component of acid rain) greenhouse gas NO- combustion engines and coal burning power plants (Lightening and bacteria can also produce NO as part of the nitrogen cycle.) N2O- emitted from fertilizers, animal waste, and from the burning of fossil fuels NO- photochemical smog, can irritate eyes, nose, and throat and aggravate asthma , suppress plant growth Nitric Acid- photochemical smog, acid deposition N2O- leads to an increase in global warming Sulfur Dioxides and Sulfuric Acid ____- colorless gas with irritating odor ________ acid- SO2 in the air is converted to sulfuric acid (H2SO4) and sulfate salts SO2- combustion of coal, oil refining, and smelting of sulfur oxides Both SO2 and Sulfuric Acid- acid deposition, reduce visibility, aggravate breathing problems, damage trees, soil and aquatic life, corrode metals, and damage paint and stone on buildings and statues. Name Characteristics Sources Effects Particulates Suspended ________________ Matter (SPM) Most comes from natural sources like SPM is linked to adverse respiratory effects, reduce visibility, corrode metals
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