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Air pollution
introduction
• Air pollution is the introduction
of chemicals, particulates, biological materials,
or other harmful materials into the Earth's
atmosphere, possibly causing disease, death
to humans, damage to other living organisms
such as food crops, or the natural or built
environment.
Anthropogenic (man-made) sources
These are mostly related to the burning of multiple types of fuel.

• Stationary Sources include smoke stacks of power plants,
manufacturing facilities (factories) and waste incinerators, as well as
furnaces and other types of fuel-burning heating devices.
• Mobile Sources include motor vehicles, marine vessels, and aircraft.
• Chemicals', dust and controlled burn practices in agriculture and
forest management'.
• Fumes from paint, hair spray, varnish, aerosol sprays and other
solvents
• Waste deposition in landfills, which generate methane
• Military resources, such as nuclear weapons, toxic gases, germ
warfare and rocketry
Natural sources:
• Dust from natural sources, usually large areas of land with few or no
vegetation
• Methane, emitted by the digestion of food by animals, for example cattle
• Radon gas from radioactive decay within the Earth's crust. Radon is a
colorless, odorless, naturally occurring, radioactive noble gas that is
formed from the decay of radium. It is considered to be a health hazard.
Radon gas from natural sources can accumulate in buildings, especially in
confined areas such as the basement and it is the second most frequent
cause of lung cancer, after cigarette smoking.
• Smoke and carbon monoxide from wildfires
• Vegetation, in some regions, emits environmentally significant amounts of
VOCs on warmer days. These VOCs react with primary anthropogenic
pollutants—specifically, NOx, SO2, and anthropogenic organic carbon
compounds—to produce a seasonal haze of secondary pollutants.[7]
• Volcanic activity, which produces sulfur, chlorine, and ash particulates

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Air pollution

  • 2. introduction • Air pollution is the introduction of chemicals, particulates, biological materials, or other harmful materials into the Earth's atmosphere, possibly causing disease, death to humans, damage to other living organisms such as food crops, or the natural or built environment.
  • 3. Anthropogenic (man-made) sources These are mostly related to the burning of multiple types of fuel. • Stationary Sources include smoke stacks of power plants, manufacturing facilities (factories) and waste incinerators, as well as furnaces and other types of fuel-burning heating devices. • Mobile Sources include motor vehicles, marine vessels, and aircraft. • Chemicals', dust and controlled burn practices in agriculture and forest management'. • Fumes from paint, hair spray, varnish, aerosol sprays and other solvents • Waste deposition in landfills, which generate methane • Military resources, such as nuclear weapons, toxic gases, germ warfare and rocketry
  • 4. Natural sources: • Dust from natural sources, usually large areas of land with few or no vegetation • Methane, emitted by the digestion of food by animals, for example cattle • Radon gas from radioactive decay within the Earth's crust. Radon is a colorless, odorless, naturally occurring, radioactive noble gas that is formed from the decay of radium. It is considered to be a health hazard. Radon gas from natural sources can accumulate in buildings, especially in confined areas such as the basement and it is the second most frequent cause of lung cancer, after cigarette smoking. • Smoke and carbon monoxide from wildfires • Vegetation, in some regions, emits environmentally significant amounts of VOCs on warmer days. These VOCs react with primary anthropogenic pollutants—specifically, NOx, SO2, and anthropogenic organic carbon compounds—to produce a seasonal haze of secondary pollutants.[7] • Volcanic activity, which produces sulfur, chlorine, and ash particulates