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What is Air pollutants?

Also known as: particulate matter · acid rain

Definition 32.2 University Chemistry — Year 3 · Chapter 32 — Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology

Particulate matter is the solid and liquid particles suspended in air, classed by aerodynamic diameter (fine particles smaller than 2.5 µm2.5\,\text{µ}\mathrm{m} reach deep into the lungs). Acid rain is rain made more acidic than clean rain by sulfuric and nitric acids formed from sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides.

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