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1
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What 3 parts make up an atom?

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  • Protons
  • Neutrons
  • electrons
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Where are electrons found?

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In orbitals going around the nucleus

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How many can electrons can each electron hold?

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  • 2 in the first

- 8 in all thereafter

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How does the periodic table arrange atoms?

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by the number of protons, also arranges them by properties

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What is the ratio of protons to electrons in an uncharged atom?

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1:1

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6
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What are the valence electrons?

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the ones in the outermost shell of the atom

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Why are valence electrons important?

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They determine how an atom interacts with others

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What makes an atom to be in it’s most stable state?

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full outer shell

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What is the name for the process which causes an atom to lose electrons?

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oxidation - forms a cation

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What is the name of the process which causes an atom to gain electrons?

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reduction - forms anions

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What is a molecule?

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A group of atoms held together in a stable assoication

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What is a compound?

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A molecule containing more than one type of element

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What allows an ionic bond to form?

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Large difference in electrongegativity, (different charge)

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What makes a covalent bond stronger?

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the number of bonds

single < double < triple…

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15
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What is a true covalent bond?

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A covalent bond with no difference in electronegativity

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What does an electronegativity difference of >1.8 mean for bonding?

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Ionic bonding

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17
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What does an electronegativity difference of 1.8>x>0.4 mean for bonding?

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Polar covalent bond

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18
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What does an electronegativity difference of <0.4 mean?

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nonpolar covalent bond

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19
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What limits chemical reactions?

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  • temperature
  • concentration
  • catalyst
  • free energy
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20
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What kind of bonding is present in water?

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polar covalent and hydrogen

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21
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What happens in hydrogen bonding?

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A very high electronegativity difference causes the molecules to form greater inter-particle interactions with other molecules

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22
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What are the physical properties of water?

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  • high specific heat capacity
  • high heat of vaporization
  • high specific latent heat
  • high surface tension
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23
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What do the terms hydrophillic and hydrophobic mean?

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Hydrophillic - bonds readily with water

Hydrophobic - does not bond with water - is imiscible with it

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24
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Is water better at dissolving charged (ionic) or non-charged molecules?

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ionic

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25
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What is solubility?

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A measure of how much solut can be dissolved in a solvent

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26
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What effects solubility?

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Temperature and pressure

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27
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How does temperature effect solubility?

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solubility of most gases decrease with increasing temperature
solubility of solids increase with increasing temperature

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28
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What is Henry’s law?

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The amount of dissolved gas is proportional to its partial pressure above the liquid

X(aq) = K*Px

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29
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How can solubility be related to an equilibrium reaction?

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  • salt is put into water and begins dissolving
  • salt continues to dissolve; however dissolved ions will also precipitate. Because the salt dissolves faster than its ions precipitate, the net movement is towards dissolution
  • the rate of dissolution will eventually equal te rate of preciptiation. Solution is in equilibrium - ions will continue to dissolve and precipitate
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30
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What is the equation for molarity?

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= [moles of solute/ litres of solution]

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31
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What does a mole show?

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The number of molecules in a given mass

n = m/gfm

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32
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What does GFM stand for?

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gram formula mass

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33
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What is the equation for normality?

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N = equivalent of solute/1L of solution

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34
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What is the equilibrium constant?

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The equilibrium expression for a reaction of constant temperature

Keq = [C]^c[D]^d/[A]^a[B]^b

the objects in [] represent the molar concentration, molarity, moles per litre

Products over reactants, each to the power of their coefficients

Precicts the predominant direction of the reaction

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35
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What does the equilibrium equation relate?

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The concentration of reactants and products

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36
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What is Le Chatelier’s principle?

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“When an equilibrium system is subjected to a change in temperature, pressure or concentration of a reacting species, the system reacts in a way that partially offsets the change while reaching a new state of equilibrium”

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37
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What doe Le Chatelier’s principle mean?

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Any stress placed on a system in equilibrium will cause the system to shift to minimise the effect of the stress

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38
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What defines the amount of a gas in liquid?

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Henry’s law

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39
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What is the unit of K if the gas concentration is in Moles/ Litre?

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Mole/ litre/ atm

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40
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What is biochemical oxygen demand?

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a measure of water pollution

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41
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What does biological oxygen demand measure?

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How much dissolved oxygen is consumed as microbes/ bacteria break down organic matter

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42
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What does high BOD indicate?

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that levels of dissolved oxygen will fall, with potentiall dangerous implications for biodiversity

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43
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What causes high BOD?

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high levels of organic pollution

Microbial activity uses up O2

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44
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What is an acid?

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A chemical that releases H^+1 ions

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45
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What is a base/ alklai?

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a chemical that accepts H^+1

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46
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What is a buffer?

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A chemical that accepts/ releases H^+1 ions as necessary to keep pH constant

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47
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What is the definition of an acid?

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Anything that produces hydrogen ions in a water solution

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48
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What is the definition of a base?

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Anything that produces hydroxide ions in a water solution (OH^-)

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49
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What are some common acids?

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  • Citrus fruits
  • Aspirin
  • Vitamin C
  • Vinegar
  • hydrochloric acid
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50
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What are some common bases?

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  • detergents
  • ammonia based cleaners
  • sodium hydroxide
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51
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What can the strength of an acid be expressed by and what does it mean?

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equilibrium - the equilibrium constant can be found

K <1 is a weak acid

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52
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What does a buffer solution usually consist of?

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A weak acid and a salt that releases additional A^- ions

A salt procides a high cocentraion of A^- ions

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53
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What is the usual equation for a weak acid?

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HA + H2O –> H3O^+ + A^-

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54
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How do you remove metal ions from a solution?

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precipitate them as a metal hydroxide

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55
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How do we precipitate metals?

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  • Raise pH with a common alklaine material
  • metals bcome insoluble
  • precipitate them
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56
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What is the drinking water standard for alkilinity?

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there isn’t one

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57
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What is alkalinity?

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The capacity to neutralise an acid, hence why there is no drinking water standard

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58
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What is hard water?

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The concentration of calcium carbonate

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59
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How is the contents of hard water precipitated?

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As a result of le Chatelier’s principle, it can have hug costs and loss of energy

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60
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What causes hard water?

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Ca^2+, Mg^2+, Fe^2+, Mn^+

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61
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What reacts with hard water to form insolutble calcium and magnesium stearates?

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sodium stearate (soap)

62
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What were the common water pollutants prior to the 1970s, and their consequences?

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waterborne diseases

fish kills and river fires

63
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What are common water pollutants since the 1970s?

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Nurients, nitrogen and phosphorous

- carcinogens and other toxins

64
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What are the latest water pollution concerns?

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  • emerging compounds

- carbon-footprint and energy consumption

65
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What do we need to monitor to try and mitigate the pollutants in water?

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  • for diseases heavy metal and pathoges
  • fish kill - temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen
  • algal blooms - N,P
  • other parameters - colour, odor, trubidity, voaltile suspended solids (VSS), total suspendie solids (TSS)
66
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What is the equation for reaction free energy and stoichiometry?

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delta Gr^o = delta Ga^o’ - deltaGd^o’

delta Ga^o’ = the electron acceptor half reaction
delta Gd^o’ = electron donor half-reaction
standard free energy

67
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If delta Gr^o’ is negative, what does this mean?

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THe reaction is spontaneous - exogenic, as written

68
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If delta Gr^o’ is positive, what does theis mean?

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The reaction is not spontaneous as written (endergonic)

69
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What is a microbial redox reaction?

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When organics in sewage are used as the energy source (sulfate to sulfide)

Then sulfide goes towards hydrogen sulfide equilibirum

Henry’s law applies
gasuous hydrogen sulfide dissolves into water to condense at the crown of the pipe and used as an electron source by sulfide oxidizer

this produces acid and dissolves concrete

70
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What kind of redox reaction causes the corrosion of concrete pipes?

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microbial

71
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What happens in the during the corrosion of steel?

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  • Iron acts as an electron donor, oxygen as an excepttor
  • current flows from anode to cathode
  • this makes an electrochemical reaction
72
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What is the conventional waste heirarchy?

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  1. (smallest) waste reduction
  2. recycling
  3. anerobic composting
  4. aerobic composting
  5. waste-to-energy
  6. modern landfill recovery and using CH4
  7. modern landfill recovering and flaring CH4
  8. Pre-regulation landfill (waste dump) (largest)
73
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What are the key features of an engineered landfill site?

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  • a gas extraction pipe
  • an impermeable clay cap
  • a synthetic membrane liner
  • leachate collection and rainage system
  • compacted low permeability clay
  • leachate drain
  • leachate collection sump
74
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Under what conditions does degredation initially occur in landfills?

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aerobic

75
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After a short amount of time what happens to the conditions of degredation?

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anerobic

76
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What is the end product of landfill degredation?

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Inert materials, glass, metals, plastics and ‘others’

77
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What are the main types of carbohydrate molecules produced by photosynthesis?

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Hemicellulose and cellulose

78
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What is the main building block of cellulose?

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Glucose

  • a mono sccharide
  • it’s a simple sugar with the functional group C=O
79
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What is the process for the fomation of cyclic monosaccharides?

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Aldehyde + alcohol –> hemiacetal

Leanr form of glucose and other monosaccharides can bend c=o functional group reacts with OH group on carbon 5

This makes the cyclic of the monosaccharide

80
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How are disaccharides formed?

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two glycosidic linkages aloha and beta are formed

The same reation an link many monosaccharide units together

81
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What is cellulose?

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A polysacccharide made up of many glucose monosaccharides formed by beta - glycosidic bonds

Forms fibres and sheets
This also allows hydrogen bonding between chains

alpha linkages give starch and glycogen

82
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What is hemicellulose?

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Also a polysaccharide but contains only 5 and 6 membered rings
More complicated structure than cellulose
The two most common monosaccharides are glucose and xylose

83
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How are proteins made?

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By linking together amino acids (alpha-amino acids)

These contain bth an acid and a basi part

Each amino acid has an R group, or functional group

There are 20 amino acids with different R groups

84
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What are the amino acids with hydrophobic side groups?

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  • Valine
  • Leucine
  • Isoleucine
  • Methionine
  • Phenylanine
85
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What are the amino acids with hydrophobic side groups?

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  • Asparagine
  • Glutamic acid
  • Glutamine
  • Histidine
  • Lysine
  • Arginine
  • Aspartic acid
86
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What are the amino acids that are neither hydro phobic or phillic?

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Glycine
Alanine 
Serine 
Threonine 
Tyrosine 
Tryptophan 
- Cysteine 
- Proline
87
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How do amino acids link together?

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Peptide bonds

C- OH bonds with H-N

This forms a N-C peptide bond and releases water

88
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What kind of organic compunds are fats and oils?

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Triacylglycerols

89
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What does saturated mean in fats and oils?

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containing only single bonds

90
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What does unsaturated mean in fats and oils?

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containing double bonds

91
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Are oils or fats unsaturated or saturated?

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oils - unsaturated

fats - saturated

92
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What is the main landfill degredation process?

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INputs: liquids (waste, rain etc.), Solids (wastes - inert and biodegradable), gases - air in void spaces

Processes: microbial activity, solution/ precipitation reactions, volatislisation, Sorption, Filtration

Outputs: Landfill leachate, Ladfill gas, residual solids

93
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What are the main landfill biodegredation phases?

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1 Hydrolysis/ aerobic

  1. Hydrolysis and anerobic (fermentation)
  2. Acetogenesis
  3. Methanogenesis
  4. Oxidation
94
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What happens in phase 1 of landfill decomposition?

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Aerobic:
bacteria metabolise waste to produce CO2, H20, and heat (up to 90 C)
Limiting factor is the avaiabilit of oxygen

95
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What happens in phase 2 of landfill degredation?

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Anerobic:
Different micro-organsims become dominant
Carbohydrates and proteins break down to give sugars. CO2, H2, NH3 and organic acids

Temperature falls to between 30 and 50 C

LFG consists of 80% CO2 and 20% H2

96
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What happens in phase 3 of landfill degredation?

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Organic acids converted to acetic acid
CO2 and H2 so low pH (4)

acidic conditions promote metal solubility and leaching

Methanogenic bacteria become dominant

97
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What happens in phase 4 of landfill degredation?

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Composition of LFG ~60% methand 20% CO2
Slow reactions
Low temperatures
acids are degraded so pH increases to 7-8
LFG is generated for between 15 and 30 yeaers, low levels for up to 100

98
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What happens in phase 5 of landfill degredation

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all reactions end, residual soils are in equilibrium

99
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What is the Ideal gas law?

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PV = nRT 
n = number of moles
R = universal content of all gases (1 mole at 1 atm pressure occupies 22.414 L at 273 K)

R = 0.082 L-atm/ mol-K

100
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What is thermodynamics?

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The study of the effects of work, heat and energy on a system

101
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What are the three laws?

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1: work, heat and energy
2 - entropy
3 - free energy

102
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What is thermodynamics used for?

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to calculate the generation of heat

to define the direction of spontaneous change

103
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What is enthalpy?

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the heat of the reaction = the sum of the standard entthalpy of the products - the sum of the standard enthalpy of the reactants
- the values must be multiplied by the number of moles entering into the reaction

104
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What is the gibbs free energy?

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G = H -TS 
H = Enthalpy
T = absolute temperature
S = entropy (J/K)
105
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How do we find the activation energy of a reaction?

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The difference between the energy of the reactants and the highest point on the graph

106
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What is the effect of an enzyme of the activation energy?

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reduces it

107
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What happens to the liquid formed within a landfill?

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They percolate downwards through the waste and potentially down into the soil below, this can have disastrous effects

108
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What is landfill leachate?

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The liquid formed within a landfill from the liquids that enter the site combined with material that is leachd from the wastes as the infliltrating liquids percolate downwards through the waste

109
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What is BOD5?

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The BOD over a 5 day period

110
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What is the total organic carbon?

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The total mass of organic carbon per litre of sample

111
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What is COD?

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The chemical oxygen demand uses a strong chemical oxidising agent to measure the amount of oxidisable organic matter. It determines the amount of oxygen needed to chemically oxidise the organics in a wastewater

112
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What are the fundamental reactions for rapid chemical oxidation?

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organic waste –> CO2 + heat + by-products

Inorganic waste –> solid ash residue

113
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What do we need for waste combustion?

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Time
Temperature
Turbulence

114
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Why is TTT important?

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Time: combustion gases must remain at high temperature >2 seconds at the correct temperature

Turbulence - contact, oxygen and temperature

115
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What are the advantages of getting energy from waste

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  • No methane production
  • incineration close to wher waste is generated/ collected
  • No long term liabilities
  • Produces an ash (IBA) with:
    1/10 of the volume and
    1/3 of the total weight
  • emissions are controlled
  • energy can be extracted
  • ash can be used as an aggregate
116
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What are the disadvantages from energy from waste?

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  • Generates CO2
  • not popular with the public
  • high costs and long pay back periods
  • long-term waste disposal contraacts
  • sometimes seen as not compatible
  • needs high calorific value wastes (paper and plastics)
  • dioxins and furans produced (not fully understood)
117
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What are some of the effects of exposure to dioxins and furans?

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Acne
Digestive disorders
Muscle and joint pain 
Neurological disorders
- memory loss, depprssion, heart complaints and cancers
118
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How is bottom ash recycled?

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Aged raw ash –>
Magnet extracts ferrous and non-errous metals
–> screen splits >20mm (~15%) used as coarse aggregate
<8mm (~45%) used as fines (can be problematic)

the rest 8«20 is used in cement and bound bituminous asphalt

119
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What is produced from APC (AIr pollution control) measures?

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lime, fly ash and carbon

produced from cleaning the gaseous emissions from waste incineration

120
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How do we dispose of APC molecules?

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  • hazardous waste landfill
  • solidifaciation/ stabilisation
  • long-term storage in a salt mine
  • chemical treatment - mixing/ reacting with waste acid
  • thermal treatment - vitrification
121
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What is the composition of the gases in the atmosphere?

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  • clean air
  • GHG
  • gaseous pollutants
  • volatile air compounds
  • particulate matter
122
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What is the composition of ‘clean air’?

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78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen 1% other

123
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What are primary pollutants?

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Pollutants that are directly emited from cars, industry….

124
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What are secondary pollutants?

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Pollutants that are a result of reactions in the atmosphere - ozone

125
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What is plancks law?

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E(lambda,T) = C1/[lamda^(5e^C2/lamdaT) - 1]

E = therotetical radiation intensity (blackbody) per surface area and is subject to a wavelength
T = absolute temperature (K)
lambda = wavelength (micro m)
C1 = 3.74*10^8
C2 = 1.44*10^4
126
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What does plancks law tell us?

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The spectral radiation intensity with various temperatures plotted against the wavelength

127
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What is the surface temperature of the sun, where we take the theoretical radiation from?

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5800K

128
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What does Wien’s displacement rule show?

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The wavelength at which maximum power is related

129
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What is Wien’s displacement rule?

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lambda max = 2898/T

lambda max in microns

130
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What is the equation for the energy of the photons?

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E = h*f
h = 6.26*10^-34

f can be rewritten c/lambda

131
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What doe we use to measure the concentration of particles in air?

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~moles of X/ mole of air

This allows it to remain constant when air density changes

132
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How high is the earth’s atmosphere?

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560km

133
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what are the four layers of verticle temperature?

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  • troposphere
  • stratosphere
  • mesosphere
  • thermosphere
  • We only need to know the top 2
134
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Why does CO2 and other GHG cause global warming?

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Sun inputs shorter wacelength energy, earth reflects back longer wavelength energy, this becomes trapped by the layer of GHGs

135
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What ozone layer absorbs ultraviolet radiation?

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between 20 and 30 km
this happends in the stratosphere

O2 + UV sunlight = O + O
O + O2 = O3

136
Q

What part of the atmosphere does global warming occur in?

A

Troposphere - between 0 and 15 km

CO or VOC + NOx + sunlight –> O3

137
Q

What does the troposhere reaction count for in global warming?

A

It is a major component of photochemical smog, causes damage to humn health and plants

138
Q

How do bonds get broken in the earth’s atmosphere?

A

Photons are incident upon the atoms, light at a specific wavelength (E = hf) has the energy to displace an electron from the outer shell

O2 + hf –> 2O+

139
Q

What is the average lifetime of an ozone molecule in the upper atmosphere?

A

30 minutes at 30km

140
Q

What is the ozone concentration at sea level?

A

0.01 ppm

141
Q

What are free radicals?

A

Atoms or molecules containing an odd number of electrons, such as OH(dot) O(dot)

142
Q

Why are free radicals dangerous?

A

usually very reactive- these react with particles in the atmosphere and stop the ozone layer from forming, makes an ozone layer hole

This means that more UV gets to us, can be very dangerous

143
Q

What is the troposphere?

A
  • The site and source of weather, water vapor and clouds
  • pollutants are removed from the troposphere withing days
  • pollutants at the very top can last for days
144
Q

What trace gases are present in the troposphere?

A

CO, NO, halogens, radon, SO2, HS and VOCs

145
Q

Why is smog dangerous?

A

It converts pollutants to ozone particles which can cause extreme health problems

146
Q

What were the consequences of London smog in the 50s?

A

1952 a week of intense fog and smoke in london resulted in 4000 deaths

4 day period in donora (PA) in 1948 (14000 population) caused 20 deaths and 6000 illnesss

147
Q

What caused smog in london?

A

High SO2 from burning high sulphur coals

liquid aerosols/ foggy conditions
presence of significatn fine particulate matter

148
Q

What happens to the pollutants in the troposphere?

A

React with free radicals (OH) - initiates the oxidation of all gases other than HCl

149
Q

Why should we care about aerosols?

A

They can travel deeply into the respiratory tract

  • short-term effects: eye, nose, throat and lung irritation, coughing sneezing, runny nose and shortness of breath
  • long term: lung misfunction and worsened medical conditions, such as asthma, increased rates of chronic bronchitis, increased rate of mortality from lung and heart disease
150
Q

What aer some natural sources and sinks of atmosphereic aerosols?

A

from both natural and human sources:

  • primary particlses
  • chemcial particles

Sinks:

  • wet depsition (rain out)
  • dry deposition
151
Q

What causes acid rain?

A

<4.5 pH

result of the emission of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides

152
Q

What are the dangers of acid rain?

A

Causes problems to trees, aquatic life, buildings and public health

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