Sentences with phrase «creating oxides of nitrogen»

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It then combines with pollutants from combustion — mainly nitrogen oxides and sulfates from vehicles, power plants and industrial processes — to create tiny solid particles, or aerosols, no more than 2.5 micrometers across, about 1/30 the width of a human hair.

Concerns over the Dreamliner kicked off over a decade ago when Boeing decided to create a civil airliner that would be both lighter than any of its previous jets and fly with leaner - burning engines to cut the plane's emissions of CO2 and nitrogen oxides.

In one sentence: Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory determined that high concentrations of nitrogen oxides influence the creation of the brown haze that hangs over the world's megacities, providing new insights that can create higher accuracy climate and atmospheric models.

The gases responsible for creating low - level ozone are carbon monoxide, the oxides of nitrogen (all found in car exhaust fumes), methane, and other hydrocarbons.

It then combines with pollutants from combustion — mainly nitrogen oxides and sulfates from vehicles, power plants and industrial processes — to create tiny solid particles, or aerosols, no more than 2.5 micrometers across, about 1/30 the width of a human hair.

This created a qualitative transformation in Homo sapiens» impact on earth system trends: levels of carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane, stratospheric ozone, surface ocean temperature, ocean acidification, marine fish capture, coastal nitrogen, tropical forest depletion, land domestication and terrestrial biosphere degradation.

Ozone is an odorless gas that is not directly emitted into the air but is created by chemical reactions between nitrogen oxides (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOC)-- which occur naturally but are also produced from the burning of fossil fuels and are released in the process of drilling for oil and natural gas.

The findings, presented at the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, said that every night chemicals from vehicle exhaust and other human created sources are broken down and prevented from becoming smog, ozone and other irritants by a form of nitrogen oxide called the nitrate radical.