Chemicals names Flashcards

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CO, CO2

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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

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SOx
SO, SO2,SO3

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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)

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NOx
(NO, NO2, N2O

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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)

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4
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Toxic metals

Cd & Cr

A

Cadmium & chromium

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5
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toxic metals

Cu & Hs

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Copper & Mercury

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6
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Toxic Metals

Pb, Zn, & As

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Lead, zinc, arsenic

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7
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HNO3

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Nitric acid

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8
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H2SO4 & H2SO3

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Sulfuric acid & sulfurous acid

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9
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Rn

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Radon

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10
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N2 & O2

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nitrogen gas & oxygen gas

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11
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CH4

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Methane

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12
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O3

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Ozone

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