PHOTOCHEMICAL SMOG

  

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PHOTOCHEMICAL SMOG

Specialty Definition: PHOTOCHEMICAL SMOG

DomainDefinition

Science

A type of smog that forms in large cities when chemical reactions take place in the presence of sunlight, its principal component is ozone. Ozone and other oxidants are not emitted into the air directly but form from reactions involving nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons. Because of its smog-making ability, ozone in the lower atmosphere (troposphere) is often referred to as 'bad' ozone. (references)

Weather

Air pollution caused by chemical reactions among various substances and pollutants in the atmosphere. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Photochemical smog

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Photochemical smog is the term to represent a multitude of chemical agents which are considered to be detrimental to the environment and health. They are called photochemical smog because they are produced by the photolysis of primary pollutants. Photochemical smog includes the following:

All of these are usually highly reactive and/or oxidising, and so photochemical smog is considered to be a problem of modern industrialization.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Photochemical smog."

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Crosswords: PHOTOCHEMICAL SMOG

Specialty definitions using "PHOTOCHEMICAL SMOG": polyaromatic hydrocarbonVolatile organic compounds. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PHOTOCHEMICAL SMOG

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

photochemical smog

16

la photochemical smog

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: PHOTOCHEMICAL SMOG

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-g-h-h-i-l-m-m-o-o-o-p-s-t"

-4 letters: photochemical.

-5 letters: theosophical.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PHOTOCHEMICAL SMOG


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 48 4F 54 4F 43 48 45 4D 49 43 41 4C      53 4D 4F 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01001000 01001111 01010100 01001111 01000011 01001000 01000101 01001101 01001001 01000011 01000001 01001100 00100000 01010011 01001101 01001111 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#72 &#79 &#84 &#79 &#67 &#72 &#69 &#77 &#73 &#67 &#65 &#76 &#32 &#83 &#77 &#79 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0048 004F 0054 004F 0043 0048 0045 004D 0049 0043 0041 004C      0053 004D 004F 0047

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50424954493742394743373546253474941

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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