Sentences with phrase «of car exhausts»

SAY air pollution and we tend to think of car exhausts, large factories and open fires.

Say air pollution and we tend to think of car exhausts, large factories and open fires.

Smell the fresh air, free of car exhaust and smog.

But diatomic molecules need not be symmetrical — carbon monoxide, the deadly component of car exhaust, is made up of one atom of carbon and one (slightly more massive) atom of oxygen.

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.

The world learned of the scandal about two weeks later, when the EPA issued a formal notice of violation relating to nearly 500,000 2.0 - liter diesel cars — stretching across seven model years and three generations of exhaust - treatment configuration.

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.

COST - Because of the extra equipment and process needed to clean their diesel exhaust, diesel cars are more expensive than their gasoline counterparts.

One of my favorite activities me and my doctor get into is to breath car exhaust all day.

These same private cars are the most wasteful form of transportation from the point of view of exhausting scarce resources.

While the aromas of the day are subdued, drowned out by heat and car exhaust, the disappearance of the sun pulls out the scents hidden deep within the earth.

I wasn't really a fan of the long car trips, and sometimes I didn't understand why we had to see «x» site or hike on a certain trail — afterall, didn't every trail have a path with trees and after a long exhausting climb one finally got to see a decent view?

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».

The shredded paper got caught under the exhaust pipes of the overheated cars, burst into flames and sent players and spectators fleeing for their lives.

The rear end of the car twitched — «It was just trying to make up its mind which way it wanted to go,» Earnhardt said later — and the exhaust bellowed as he floored it again leaving the turn.

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.....

Gone are the days of a child's only view being car pipe exhaust and briefcases.

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.

The decision comes less than a week after Gov. Andrew Cuomo directly appealed to Buffet to remove the cars, and said the state would «exhaust all legal options» to torpedo the storage plan along some 30 miles of tracks through the central Adirondacks.

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.

By altering the exhaust level as the car runs, the cylinders supply themselves with just the right amount of fuel and air they need at any one time — as befits a pair of mechanical lungs.

A catalytic converter on a car, for example, uses metal catalysts to pluck toxins out of exhaust fumes.

However, one of the shortcomings of CAR T cells is that they tend to become exhausted.

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.

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.

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.

Opinion mining is not entirely new, but the team has demonstrated a strong proof of principle with their DFOC method on car design on characteristics such as engine power, fuel economy, safety, comfort, exhaust, sound system, interior design etc..

«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.»

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.

Because with China and India poised to put tens of millions of new fossil - fuel - powered cars on the road, the stuff coming out of all those exhausts is going to make it hard to see the top of the hill.

According to Leguay, lead from car exhausts that finds its way into the soil of vineyards next to major roads is only a «very minor» source of contamination.

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

Instead of being embedded in the ion cars, the electrons sit like a cloud of exhaust around each ion, and they can actually leap from ion to ion and back again.

The stagnant air caused by heat and humidity tends to trap airborne pollutants, such as car exhaust, which react in the presence of sunlight to form ozone, a main ingredient in smog.

Everyday we're exposed to thousands of toxins... from the chemicals in the coke zero you guzzled down at lunch to the car exhaust fumes you breathe in walking down the road.

VOCs come from a variety of sources, including car exhaust and off - gassing from everyday household products.

Smoking, pollution, car exhaust, fried foods are some sources of free radicals.