What is Smog and Where Does it Come From?

Nearly every large city on Earth suffers from some degree of smog. This word itself is a combination of “smoke” and “fog,” though the actual substance that hangs in the atmosphere like a dirty brown blanket is usually far more complicated. During the initial century of the industrial revolution, smog was almost always caused by [...]

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Smog Is A Mixture of Different Air Pollutants

Smog is a low-level atmospheric mixture of several different kinds of air pollution. In some areas, such as those near coal-fired power plants, the main constituents of smog are the byproducts of fossil-fuel burning such as sulfur dioxide, ground level ozone and carbon monoxide. Massive smog events can also be caused by residential coal burning, [...]

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