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The Database for the Environment

The Database for the Environment gives you a good overview about all important aspects of our environment.

Air Pollutant

An Air Pollutant is any substance in air that could, in high enough concentration, harm man, other animals, vegetation, or material. Pollutants may include almost any natural or artificial composition of airborne Matter capable of being airborne.

Acid Rain

Acid rain is the result of sulfur dioxide (SO₂) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) reacting in the atmosphere with water and returning to earth as rain, fog, or snow. Broadly used to include both wet and dry deposition. The acid rain page provides a great deal of information about this issue.

By-product

A By-product is a material, other than the principal product, generated as a consequence of an industrial process or as a breakdown product in a living system.

Reverse osmosis

A Reverse osmosis is Common process used to produce Deionized water from municipal water (Brown and Caldwell, 1990).