Air

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TYPES
SOURCES
EFFECTS
CARBON DIOXIDE CO2
1. motor vehicles 2. industries

1. Headaches
2. Heart damage leading to death

Air Pollutants
SULPHUR DIOXIDE SO2
1. power stations 2. oil refineries 3.
industries

• Breathing difficulties
• Lung cancer
• Forms acid rain
• -damages vegetation, affects marine life,
• corrodes buildings and stoneworks

Consists of
from
causes
causes
OXIDES OF NITROGEN
1. motor vehicles 2. industries

• Damages lungs
• Forms acid rain
• - damages vegetation, affects marine
  life,
• corrodes buildings and stoneworks

LEAD COMPOUNDS
motor cars using leaded petrol

1. Damages brains of children
2. Affects the heart and kidneys

CHLORO FLUORO CARBONDS CFCs
1. Aerosol sprays 2. Coolants in
refrigerators 3. Making of styrofaom
boxes

• Thinning of the ozone layer allowing UV
• rays to penetrate the atmosphere
• 2. Skin cancer.