Emissions of NOx should be abated or controlled for a number of reasons; as a contributor to smog, the presence of NOx can have serious or even deadly consequences.<\/p>\n
Nitrogen Oxide is quite prevalent in the Earth\u2019s atmosphere. That said, the \u201cnoxious\u201d mixture can be truly noxious as an active ingredient in smog (photochemical ozone) when it becomes a respiratory and eye irritant. NOx helps to form smog by reacting with VOCs (volatile organic compounds) in the presence of sunlight. NOx is primarily composed of NO and NO2, although most thermal NOx is NO.<\/p>\n
Smog can be deadly. During smog \u201cattacks\u201d in Tokyo, Shanghai, and Los Angeles, hundreds of people have been killed due to the noxious mixture causing suffocation.<\/p>\n
A winter temperature inversion caused the episode in Salt Lake City in 1976, which sickened many as well as providing a murky grayish-brown cast to a winter sky, which only a few miles away (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emissions of NOx should be abated or controlled for a number of reasons; as a contributor to smog, the presence of NOx can have serious or even deadly consequences. Nitrogen Oxide is quite prevalent in the Earth\u2019s atmosphere. That said,…<\/span><\/p>\n