criteria air pollutant

Also known as: criteria pollutant

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air pollution

  • Air pollution in Mexico City
    In air pollution: Criteria pollutants

    Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as “criteria” pollutants—criteria meaning that the concentrations of these pollutants in the atmosphere are useful as indicators of overall air quality. The sources, acceptable concentrations, and effects of the criteria pollutants are summarized in the table.

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National Ambient Air Quality Standards

  • Automobile emissions
    In National Ambient Air Quality Standards

    …six principal pollutants known as criteria pollutants. These are carbon monoxide, lead, nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter (airborne suspensions of extremely small solid or liquid particles), sulfur dioxide, and ground-level ozone (ozone is not directly emitted into the air but is formed by sunlight acting on emissions of

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