Friday, September 11, 2009

Air pollution -Hippies 4 life

Alot of different things can cause air pollution. Let's take a tally, shall we?

1) Sulfur Oxides: These things are coughed up by volcanoes all the time. And, guess what? When we burn Coal and Petroleum, they are also produced. Double Oorah. Oh, is that the worst? No. When it comes into contact with Nitrogen Dioxide and Sulphuric acid, you get a nice little cocktail of ACID RAIN! *Ahem*.

2) Nitrogen Oxides: It is a reddish-brown toxic gas, normally seen above factories and rubbish-burning centres. They come from high temperature combustion, and has a sharp, biting odor. *sniff* *sniff*.

3) Carbon Monoxide: Ah, everybody's favourite. This oh-so-beautiful gas is odourless and colurless, AND it kills! Sleep well at night, yeah?

4) Carbon dioxide: Yeah, yeah, yeah, greenhouse gas. Shove off.

5) Metals: Lead, copper, chickens, cadmium....you name it.

6) Chlorofluorocarbons: What a long name! Harmful to the ozone layer and banned from use....hmm...anyone know where we can get some?

7) Ammonia: Found in pee, stinks like pee, looks like pee(citation needed). Hazardous.

8) Odors: dumpsters, garbage, sewage, granny's armpit....euch.

Now that that's out of the way, let's do another on where those lovely contaminants may come from, shall we?

-Power Plants(sleepy...)
-Vehicles(vroom vroom)
-Fumes(from aerosol sprays, varnish...etc)
-Military weapons(boom boom)
-Dust(achoo)
-Methane(Poot. Hehe.)
-Radon(cool name)
-Smoke(smoky...)
-Volcanoes(earth's very own boom booms)

All right, that's it for this post. Check back, yeah?

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