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Look up: smog

  1. Smog
    Air pollution typically associated with oxidants. (See photochemical smog.)
    Found on http://www.epa.gov/OCEPAterms/

  2. smog
    Air pollution associated with oxidants.
    Found on http://cdiac.ornl.gov/glossary.html

  3. Smog
    Dirty fog produced by air pollution in cities, and often occurring beneath a temperature inversion. The action of sunlight can produce photo-chemical smog.
    Found on http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/weatherwise

  4. smog
    [n] - air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  5. Smog
    A mixture of smoke and fog associated with urban and industrial areas
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20634

  6. Smog
    is a mixture of smoke, chemical pollutants and fog (dispersed water droplets). Smog hit many UK cities in the 1950s and early 1960s, killing nearly 5000 elderly people.
    Found on http://www.epaw.co.uk/EPT/glossary.html

  7. smog
    (Learning Modules / Geography / Geography of energy) A mixture of smoke pollutants and fog
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib

  8. smog
    Smog is a mixture of smoke and fog. The term is used to describe city fogs in which there is a large proportion of particulate matter (tiny pieces of carbon from exhausts) and also a high concentration of sulphur and nitrogen gases.
    Found on http://www.ktf-split.hr/periodni/en/abc/

  9. Smog
    A fog containing fumes, or a photochemical haze caused by the action of ultraviolet radiation on hydrocarbons and NOx from automobile exhaust.
    Found on http://www.chemicalglossary.net/definiti

  10. Smog
    Originally a combination of smoke and fog, now used to describe other mixtures of air pollutants, especially ozone and other compounds formed when strong sunlight acts on a mixture of nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds from motor vehicle exhaust.
    Found on http://www.frontierassoc.net/greenafford

  11. smog
    a concentration of air pollutants occurring under particular meteorological conditions,generally of photo-chemical origin Category: Environment
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  12. Smog
    A mixture of smoke and fog generally used as an equivalent of air pollution, particularly associated with oxidants.
    Found on http://www.neo.ne.gov/statshtml/glossary

  13. smog
    A mixture of smoke and fog polluting the atmosphere. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  14. smog
    smogginess noun air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  15. smog
    community-wide polluted air. Although the term is derived from the words smoke and fog, it is commonly used to describe the pall of automotive or ... [10 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/113

  16. Smog
    Generic term used to describe mixtures of pollutants in the atmosphere. Also see industrial smog and photochemical smog.
    Found on http://www.physicalgeography.net/physgeo

  17. Smog
    A word currently used as a synonym for general air pollution. It was originally created by combining the words "smoke" and "fog."
    Found on http://nsidc.org/arcticmet/glossary/smog

  18. smog
    smog (smog) [smoke+fog], dense, visible air pollution. Smog is commonly of two types. The gray smog of older industrial cities like London and New York derives from the massive combustion of coal and fuel oil in or near the city, releasing tons of ashes, soot, and sulfur compounds into the air. The ...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08456

  19. smog
    Type: Term Pronunciation: smog Definitions: 1. Air pollution characterized by a hazy and often highly irritating atmosphere resulting from a mixture of fog with smoke and other air pollutants.
    Found on http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictio

  20. smog
    Natural fog containing impurities, mainly nitrogen oxides (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from domestic fires, industrial furnaces, certain power stations, and internal-combustion engines (petrol or diesel). It can cause substantial illness and loss of life, particularly among chronic bronchitics, and damage t...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  21. Smog
    A mixture of pollutants, principally ground-level ozone, produced by chemical reactions in the air involving smog-forming chemicals. A major portion of smog-formers comes from burning of petroleum-based fuels such as gasoline. Other smog-formers, volatile organic compounds, are found in products suc...
    Found on http://www.4cleanair.org/glossary.html

  22. smog
    A local alteration in the atmosphere caused by human activity; mainly an urban problem that is often due to pollutants produced by fuel combustion.
    Found on http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/fara

  23. Smog
    `Smog` is a type of air pollution; the word "smog" is a portmanteau of smoke and fog. Modern smog is a type of air pollution derived from vehicular emission from internal combustion engines and industrial fumes that react in the atmosphere with sunlight to form secondary pollutants that al...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smog

  24. SMOG
    `SMOG` is a accessdate=2010-12-14-->--> The SMOG formula yields a 0.985 correlation with a standard error of 1.5159 grades with the grades of readers who had 100% comprehension of test materials.--> SMOG was published by G. Harry McLaughlin in 1969 as a more accurate and more easily calculated subst...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMOG



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12 February 2012

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/calendar/ On February 12, 1809, Charles Robert Darwin was born at The Mount in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. Darwin was one of the last of the eclectic scientists who preceded the age of professional specialization. His genius lay in his ability to select, from the facts which he so diligently collected, every relevant point and fit it into his bold and far-reaching theories. He was not the first to advance a theory of evolution; but his massive weight of evidence carried conviction where earlier theorists had failed. He was shy and modest and shrank from controversy, an unfortunate trait in the author of the most controversial book of the century. read more

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