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Air Resources Board, California Environmental Protection Agency
Domeniu: Government
Number of terms: 3992
Number of blossaries: 2
Company Profile:
Products such as hairspray, detergents, cleaning compounds, polishes, lawn and garden products, personal care products, and automotive specialty products which are part of our everyday lives and, through consumer use, may produce volatile organic air emissions which contribute to air pollution. Please view our consumer products website.
Industry:Pollution control
Natural or synthetic chemical compounds composed of up to millions of repeated linked units, each of a relatively light and simple molecule.
Industry:Pollution control
Non-cancer health effects which may include birth defects, organ damage, morbidity, and death.
Industry:Pollution control
Non-manmade emission sources, including biological and geological sources, wildfires, and windblown dust.
Industry:Pollution control
Non-mobile sources such as power plants, refineries, and manufacturing facilities which emit air pollutants. (See also mobile sources).
Industry:Pollution control
One of several combustion technologies used to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides.
Industry:Pollution control
One or a series of short-term exposures generally lasting less than 24 hours.
Industry:Pollution control
Organic compounds which include only carbon and hydrogen with a fused ring structure containing at least two benzene (six-sided) rings. PAHs may also contain additional fused rings that are not six-sided. The combustion of organic substances is a common source of atmospheric PAHs.
Industry:Pollution control
Particles of solid or liquid matter -- such as soot, dust, aerosols, fumes, and mist -- up to approximately 30 microns in size.
Industry:Pollution control
Particles of solid or liquid matter that can remain suspended in air from a few minutes to many months depending on the particle size and weight.
Industry:Pollution control