... looking superior, the proper products are required. There are many products on the market that can be used to protect the interior and exterior of the car from harmful elements. Harmful elements include ultra violent rays and acid rain. These harmful elements cause leather to crack, the dashboard to fade, and paint ... at the engine's metal, like water pumps and radiators. The air filter needs to be checked frequently to make sure that your car's engine gets the proper fuel and air mixture ratio. If the engine's air filter is dirty, the engine's optimum power output is decreased. Anoth...

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... the single most polluting thing that most of us do." This is not a new problem. In the 1950's the Los Angeles smog made headline news. Car exhaust causes health problems. There are many solutions to the problem. Laws were enacted as long as twenty years ago to control pollution caused by cars. Since then laws have ... health of the people who live in the United States. Some solutions to the problem are: cutting down on the number of cars, traveling at steady speeds, and keeping your car in good shape. You should never over fill your gas tank. You should always use clean gas. People sho...

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... oxidants and water vapor in the atmosphere, and convert into nitric and sulfuric acids. Then as they fall towards the earth they mix with rain, fog, snow, or other things. Car coatings are damaged from all sorts of acid rain, but mostly when dry acidic deposition is mixed with dew or rain. Some ways to minimize the occurrence are to wash ... your car often and hand dry it, cover your car with a hood, and use protective coatings that can protect the original coatings or finish. Industries that do automobile coatings know about the damage from acid rain ... to damage your automobile. Aci...

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... breathe. The moment you step out of the house and are on the road you can actually see the air getting polluted; a cloud of smoke from the exhaust of a bus, car, or a motor vehicle; smoke billowing from a factory chimney, flyash produced by thermal power plants, and speeding cars causing dust to rise from the roads. Natural occurrences such as the eruption ... a carpool. See to it that the use of aerosols is reduced in your house. Make sure that your father or mother gets a pollution check of the car done at regular intervals and that the car is well maintained. Trees give out oxygen an...

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... ). HAPS can cause serious health problems like cancer, birth defects, nervous system problems, and deaths that are all due to people accidentally letting them go into the air. House and car paint as well as the manufacturing of lead batteries, fishing lures, certain parts of bullets, some ceramic ware, water pipes, and fixtures, release lead. In young children, lead can cause ... Agra, India. There are many things we can do to reduce the problems of acid pollution. One major way is to reduce the amount of trips you take in your car. Another way that a lot of our pollution is caused is by...

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... worry that other chemical refrigerants may not have the same effectiveness as freon, which is the most popular "active ingredient- in car and home air conditioning systems (Makhijani, 79). However, EPA regulations adopted in 1999 and 2000 mandate checkups on car air conditioning systems and static a/c systems in commercial buildings to ensure that there is no freon or CFC leakage. Conclusion Ozone ... in the years since 1960. Numerous industrial and chemical processes were probably responsible for the increase in ozone-reactive CFCs and other chemicals since then, but the drastic increa...

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... dead fish. To add to that our 10 feet high boundary walls was now a measly 6 feet. The brightly painted walls of our home was now peeling and patchy. And our car it was no better. Our holiday was ruined. Nobody had any idea what had happened. Some of us figured our home must have been the tragic victim of some natural ... and circulate within the building, affecting and deteriorating the materials. This is something I saw with my own eyes. During one particularly acid monsoon rainstorm in Pakistan, I saw a lime green colored car, which had had the yellow from the green paint bleached aw...

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... Folker Your walking alone in the woods one day and you realize it is about to rain soon. So you hurry as you try to make it back to your car before the rain comes, but as you are running you hear the little thumps on the leaves in the trees above you. Then you feel a sharp burning sensation on your ... our part to the fight. We must make more awareness of the problem and as citizens, to reduce sulfur and nitrogen emission we must reduce the use of fossil fuels. Car pools, public transportation, or walking can reduce nitrogen oxide emissions. Acid rain is a big problem. Not only does it ...

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... oxide) NOx emissions from cars. The government should make rules and regulations and laws of reducing the use of fossil fuels, they should pass bills regarding at least 4 people in a car etc. Or discourage people from buying cars and vehicles by increasing tax rates on cars. 2. What individuals can do? Acid rain can best be curtailed by reducing the amount of ... etc. it would help raise the family budget too. You dont have to have Catalytic converters, if you use pool cars instead, you save the money of having your own car, it's expenses of petrol, keeping it clean etc. So basically, y...

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... less deformed and rounded-(Miller). Some manufacturers of motor vehicles have had top paint their cars with acid resistant paint which can protect the car against the corrosive affects of acid rain, at an average cost of 5 per car produced in the Scandinavian countries which is a total of £61 million per year on top of all new cars sold in the ... ...

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... secondary school students, which questioned their modes of transport travelling to and from school. Of the people questioned it showed that just 1 in 4 students caught the bus and for both car pooling and walking, it was just one in 12. As for the people who were driven to school (over 50%) six in every seven had the option of catching a bus ... concerning pollutants produced by cars can, and will pose enormous threats to the future of our environment. It has been predicted from past recordings, that within the next thirty years car usage will double resulting in an increase of pollutio...

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... less deformed and rounded. Some manufacturers of motor vehicles have had top paint their cars with acid resistant paint which can protect the car against the corrosive affects of acid rain, at an average cost of £5 per car produced in the Scandinavian countries which is a total of £61 million per year on top of all new cars sold in the ... ...

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... we get our water supply. Another type is land pollution. Causes of land pollution would be people being careless and throwing their trash onto the ground, which makes the Cities Street, look dirty. People and animals are affected by different kinds of pollution. They both drink the polluted water and breathe in the polluted air. In doing this, they can cause ... ...

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... than the main raw materials, sulfur. Elaborate commission proof container are required for the transportation of sulfuric acid while sulfur can be much more easily transported by truck or railway car. 3) Human Resources For a sulfuric acid plant to operate, a large work force will obviously be required. The plant must employ chemists, technicians, administrators, computer operators, and people in sales and marketing ... ...

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... . Vehicles that use electricity as their main power source tend to be virtually pollution-free, which makes them one of the best alternatives for reducing harmful vehicle emissions. Also, the car batteries can recharge at night, when you are sleeping and when the power demand isn't as high, and it's cheaper. Not only does this effect cars, but power plants that ... ...

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... the main cause of pollution from sulfuric and nitric oxides, there is only little that can be done. By buying energy efficient appliances, choosing to ride the bus instead of a car, or even adding insulation to a house are all ways to conserve energy (Encarta). If less fossil fuels are burned, less energy is used. Another way to help is to switch ... ...

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... further reactions which release new hydroxyl radicals to generate more sulfuric acid. The following is a typical reaction, which is direct combination of nitrogen and oxygen at the high temperature inside a car engine. N2 + O2 + heat =* 2NO 2NO + O2 =* 2NO2 This nitrogen monoxide immediately reacts with oxygen and forms nitrogen dioxide in the following reaction 3NO2 + H2O =* 2HNO3 (aq) + NO The nitrogen ... ...

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... further reactions which release new hydroxyl radicals to generate more sulfuric acid. The following is a typical reaction, which is direct combination of nitrogen and oxygen at the high temperature inside a car engine. N2 + O2 + heat =* 2NO 2NO + O2 =* 2NO2 This nitrogen monoxide immediately reacts with oxygen and forms nitrogen dioxide in the following reaction 3NO2 + H2O =* 2HNO3 (aq) + NO The nitrogen ... ...

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... in New England. During one particularly acid summer storm, rain falling on a lime-green automobile leached away the yellow in the green paint, leaving blue raindrop shaped spots on the car. Scientists have found that pollution in the air from the burning of fossil fuels is the main cause of acid rain. The major chemicals in air that help to create ... ...

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Acid Rain If you have ever wondered why precious monuments are fading away, or the reason your car starts to look old, or if you can't understand why the bricks on the side of your house are breaking, look up the term Acid rain in your encyclopedia. Acid ... ...

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... have a significant impact on the state of the air. Using public transportation and carpooling always helps. During periods of particular intense smog, authorities often urge people to avoid trips by car. To encourage this, many times public transportation is made temporarily free. To reduce the greenhouse effect gases such as carbon dioxide, perfluoro carbon and sulfur hexofluoride should be reduced. This ... ...

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... cost of the vehicle will increase to compensate for the cost of the resistant paint. This inflation in automobile cost can prove to be a problem for many that rely on a car but can not afford the influx. Acid rain is also responsible for the loss of two billion to four billion dollars worth of wheat, corn, soybeans, and peanuts. This is ... ...

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... of controlled explosion produces various harmful emissions "most notably Hydrocarbons, Carbon monoxide, and Nitrogen Oxides. Hydrocarbons, which are toxic and carcinogenic, escape into the air during refueling and running a car engine and cause eye irritation, congestion, wheezing, shortness of breath, permanent lung damage, and acid rain. They also react with Nitrogen Oxides in sunlight to form ground level ozone. A colorless ... ...

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... be wearing earmuffs to bed just to get good nights sleep. There are many ways to controlling population in the world. Informing people to cut down on natural resources like car-pooling to save energy, recycling paper to lesson the amount of deforestation, or even making sure you shut the water off in between stages of brushing your teeth, can help ... ...

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... located on a side system next to the direct exhaust line so that they can be turned on or off. Most catalytic converters are located closer to the engine of the car, so that the emissions are still vaporized when they pass through the filter. Although there are different types of converters, the standard converter is about the size of two 2L ... ...

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