Sentences with phrase «in car exhaust»

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.

While HCAs are found mostly in overcooked meats, PAHs can be found in car exhaust and cigarette smoke.

A 2003 Greek study associated a 10 - unit increase in carbon monoxide, a poisonous gas found in car exhaust fumes, with a 46 % hike in deaths from cardiovascular disease.

Not exact matches

My fondest memory of taking the family to Disney World is of eavesdropping on an exhausted couple and their glazed - over children in a desolate parking lot, arguing about whether they'd left their car in the Pluto section or the Goofy section.

LEIPZIG, Germany, Feb 27 - German cities can ban the most heavily polluting diesel cars from their streets, a court ruled on Tuesday, a move likely to be mirrored in other parts of Europe and to force automakers to pay to improve exhaust systems or switch to cleaner vehicles.

Recent data shows that exhaust carbon emissions fell 3.7 % in Europe last year, and the European Union has set a target for cutting average emissions in new cars to 130 grams per kilometer by 2015.

If they were to get into a car accident, your car insurance would probably be exhausted in covering any potential injuries to the children.

If you are, you know it's an exhausting way to live (exemplified very literally in Mia, as she finally leaves the party, only to find that her car has been towed).

According to Professor Nick Hewitt of the Lancaster Environment Centre, 40 million tons of CO2 is «equivalent to a 50 per cent reduction in current exhaust pipe emissions of CO2 from the entire UK passenger car fleet».

Spending time in the car always sounds like such a drag to me — it's hot, you can't move, and long drives are exhausting.

The inducements allegedly offered by Liverpool included all - expenses - paid trips to tournaments in Paris and Denmark, # 50 cash in hand every time the boy went for training at their academy, and even money to help his father replace a faulty car exhaust.

you are carefully removing them from the car to place them gingerly in their beds because you just know they must be totally exhausted from their adventures of the day.....

I deal with being exhausted as a mom by sleeping in my car.

They're wonderful for when baby is a newborn, and all the bells and whistles are fun, but mom gets exhausted carrying the large infant car seat onto the big bulky stroller; add in all the extras you need to take with you such as the diaper bag, purse and shopping bags and it feels like you're pushing around a dump truck!

The way back we really put the BB Tai to the test, wearing an exhausted 30 lb Dragon Baby the few miles back to the car in the hot hot sun.

I chose this method because I was exhausted and drove off the side of the road twice (with the baby in the car) and knew I needed to drastically change my own sleep pattern to a more normal one.

I'm going to guess this was probably because during the time where it would have been appropriate to stroll my baby in the car seat / stroller combo I was too freaking exhausted.

There's people who are dealing with the consequences of having that environmental impact, the exhaust from all of the trucks and all of the cars that are backed up there day in and day out.»

But the previous studies shared a common problem, says Marc Baum, a chemist at the Oak Crest Institute of Science, a nonprofit research center in Baldwin Park, California: They tracked car exhaust drifting out of highway tunnels, and the researchers were concerned that ammonia could react with the walls of the tunnel or other gases and thus not show up on detectors.

Recent studies suggested that vehicles in southern California produce only 61 milligrams of ammonia per kilogram of exhaust, a number that would make the cumulative effect of southern California's cars only half that estimated to come from livestock.

BALTIMORE — A glut of nitrogen washing over the land from car and factory exhaust and crop fertilizers is degrading water and air quality and even altering precarious balances in species diversity.

Every day, numerous cars and trucks are wearing on Norway's almost one hundred thousand kilometers of road: Asphalt wear on the tires, the tires wear on the asphalt, exhaust flows out from the vehicles and all is shrouded by road dust, until a rainfall cleanses the air, leaving all the dust and particles in the ditch.

Steps taken to clean up car exhaust over the past few decades have had a huge effect, and as a result, «the sources of air pollution are now becoming more diverse in cities,» said McDonald, a chemist at Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences in Boulder, Colo..

Those techniques have led to everything from the development of catalysts that remove poisonous carbon monoxide from car exhaust to the understanding of how ice crystals in stratospheric clouds supercharge atmospheric chlorine's ability to destroy the planet's protective ozone layer.

Commercial air purifiers aim for removing the small particles that are present in soot, smoke or car exhaust because these damaging particles are inhaled directly into the lungs.

In Scotland, it mostly originates far away as nitrogen oxides from power stations and car exhausts, which travel on the wind and eventually fall as acid rain.

One future and potentially highly profitable use for the diode could be as part of a system to monitor gases in a car's exhaust.

The compounds were identified in laboratory experiments that mimic the type of conditions which might be found from the combustion and exhaust in cars and trucks, or the grilling of meat over a flame.

Some of this technology is already in use in hybrids: Regenerative braking converts the car's motion into electricity as the vehicle comes to a stop, and BMW and Honda are designing devices that recover heat from engine exhaust.

«The wait often means spending time in some of the most polluted locations in cities, close to intersections where cars, trucks and buses are continually stopping and accelerating, spewing out high concentrations of noxious exhaust,» said senior author Suzanne Paulson, UCLA professor of atmospheric sciences.

Dairy farm waste, soil blown from farmlands, pesticides, industrial emissions, vehicle exhaust and dust particles kicked up by cars and the big rigs ferrying produce down Interstate 5 and Highway 99 — the valley's two main arteries — have made this one of the smoggiest places in the nation.

Forest fires, car exhaust and fuel for heating homes and businesses are major sources in Alberta.

Metallic honeycombs are already used as catalytic convertors of exhaust gas in cars.

Lackner and colleagues argued in a paper published last July in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that air capture may prove the only way to deal with greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, all those tailpipes and engine exhausts on the world's millions of cars, airplanes and other vehicles.

It produces no carbon dioxide exhaust emissions, and even when the CO2 released in generating the electricity used to charge its batteries is factored in, it is responsible for less than half the amount emitted by the «greenest» petrol cars.

A leader in this quest is German - based automaker DaimlerChrysler, which recently introduced BLUETEC technology — a modular exhaust treatment system that cuts nitrogen oxide and soot output significantly, enabling cars to meet the most stringent U.S. emission standards.

That's because it contains ethers and alcohols, oxygen - rich compounds that are designed to prevent the build - up, especially in cold weather, of carbon monoxide from car exhausts.

«This mixture is so rich that much of the gasoline passes through unburnt, and the air in Mexico City is virtually saturated with hydrocarbons from car, truck and bus exhausts.»

«Stringent exhaust gas tests for cars in Europe.»

Among health issues that some advocates have linked to chemical exposures: early pubescence in girls (BPA hastens the onset of pubescence in juvenile rats); asthma (car and truck exhaust can induce or worsen lung inflammation), and genital malformation (phthalates have been linked to lower sperm count and deformed penises in rats).

As of October 2017, newly launched car models will have to pass more stringent exhaust gas tests in the EU and in Switzerland.

Mexico City has the worst car exhaust problem in the world because most of the city's cars run on unleaded petrol and therefore can not use catalytic converters or other pollution controls.

By now, it's no secret: the certification requirements for cars in the EU and in Switzerland have precious little to do with the cars» actual exhaust emissions on the roads.

«Suggestive evidence» for link between air pollution, heightened stillbirth risk: Tighter curbs on car exhaust, industrial waste and boost in fuel quality needed.»

So you've designed the perfect carbon capture process, cheap and easily installed in everything from coal power plants to car exhaust systems.

Crop fertilizers, manure, sewage and exhaust spewed by cars and power plants all end up in waterways that flow into the ocean.

They found that adding a bit of nitrogen oxide, released in combustion engine car exhaust, resulted in particles that trapped some heat.

Researchers from Washington State University and Tufts University have demonstrated for the first time that a single metal atom can act as a catalyst in converting carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide, a chemical reaction that is commonly used in catalytic converters to remove harmful gases from car exhaust.

As cars become more fuel - efficient, less heat is wasted in the exhaust, which makes it harder to clean up the pollutants that are emitted.

Researchers found that particles in exhaust from cars and trucks can cause epigenetic changes — alterations that affect how genes are switched on and off without changing the DNA sequence itself.