Chemicals names Flashcards
CO, CO2
Carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide
Primary
- Natural: volcanos & wildfires, Respiration, decomposition, and photosynthesis
- Human cause: Combustion (coal) power plants, industrial facilites, and transport
- Effects: Increase greenhouse effects, increase acid rain, increase acidification
CO is indoor
CO2 Outdoor
SOx
SO, SO2,SO3
Sulfur Oxides
Primary
- Natural: Volcanoes
- Human Causes: Combustion (coal) at power plants, Industrial facilites, mining, diesel vehicles
- Effects: health issues (asthma), Smog development, forms sulfuric (H2SO4) & sulfurous acid (H2SO3)
NOx
(NO, NO2, N2O
Nitrogen Oxides
Primary
- Natural: Volcanos, lighting, bacteria becomes NO2 when mixed with oxygen in air
- Human: NO2, N2O combustion on enrgry production and vehicles N2O agriculture & waste
- Effects: health- respiratory, liver, and spleen, Smog, nitric acid rain (HNO3)
Toxic metals
Cd & Cr
Cadmium & chromium
toxic metals
Cu & Hs
Copper & Mercury
Toxic Metals
Pb, Zn, & As
Lead, zinc, arsenic
HNO3
Nitric acid
H2SO4 & H2SO3
Sulfuric acid & sulfurous acid
Rn
Radon
N2 & O2
nitrogen gas & oxygen gas
CH4
Methane
O3
Ozone