LE2 Flashcards
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Precipitation abnormally high in sulfuric and nitric acid content that is caused by atmospheric pollutants.
Acid Precipitation
A rain or any other form of precipitation that is unusually acidic, meaning that it possesses elevated levels of hydrogen ions (low pH). It can have harmful effects on plants, aquatic animals and infrastructure.
Acid rain
It is caused by emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, which react with the water molecules in the atmosphere to produce acids.
Acid rain
It is a generic name for Air Pollution Control Equipment (APC) that is designed around the use of engineered fabric filter tubes, envelopes or cartridges in the dust capturing, separation or filtering process.
Baghouse
These are tiny air sacs within the lungs where the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes place.
Alveoli
It is a naturally occurring chemical compound composed of two oxygen atoms each covalently double bonded to a single carbon atom
Carbon Dioxide
It is historically defined as “the total sets of greenhouse gas emissions caused by an organization, event, product or person”
Carbon footprint
It is a form of emissions trading that specifically targets carbon dioxide (calculated in tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent or tCO2e) and it currently constitutes the bulk of emissions trading.
Carbon trading
These are trails left in the sky by high-flying aircrafts that are believed to have contained chemicals or biological input
Chemtrails
It is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time
Climate change
It is an area of closed, circular fluid motion rotating in the same direction as the Earth.
Cyclones
It is a filtration device that removes fine particles, like dust and smoke, from a flowing gas using the force of an induced electrostatic charge minimally impeding the flow of gases through the unit.
Electrostatic precipitation
These are made up of fallen snow that, over many years, compresses into large, thickened ice masses. It form when snow remains in one location long enough to transform into ice.
Glaciers
It is a natural process that warms the Earth’s surface. When the Sun’s energy reaches the Earth’s atmosphere, some of it is reflected back to space and the rest is absorbed and re-radiated by greenhouse gases.
Greenhouse effect
It is a gas in an atmosphere that absorbs and emits radiation within the thermal infrared range. This process is the fundamental cause of the greenhouse effect.
Greenhouse gas
Give some examples of greenhouse gasses
Water vapor Carbon dioxide Methane Nitrous Oxide Ozone CFCs
It provides a very high level of filtration efficiency for the smallest as well as the largest particulate contaminants.
HEPA Filters
HEPA in HEPA Filter stands for __________
High Efficiency Particulate Air
It is an organic compound consisting entirely of hydrogen and carbon. It can also be found naturally in crude oil
Hydrocarbon
These are produced synthetically and are used primarily as refrigerants
Hydrofluorocarbon
It is a colorless gas with the characteristic foul odor of rotten eggs; it is heavier than air, very poisonous, corrosive, flammable, and explosive.
Hydrogen Sulfide
It is an international treaty, which extends the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits State Parties to reduce greenhouse gases emissions, based on the premise that (a) global warming exists and (b) man-made CO2 emissions have caused it.
Kyoto Protocol
A colorless, odorless flammable gas that is the main constituent of natural gas. It is the simplest member of the alkane series of hydrocarbons.
Methane
A cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth’s surface limiting visibility, but to a lesser extent than fog; strictly, with visibility remaining above 1.5 miles (1 km).
Mist
