Question

What is smog and different types of smog?

Answer 1

Smog is a type of air pollutant. The word "smog" is a combination of two words smoke and fog.

Smog is an air pollutant that forms in the atmosphere when gases and chemicals interact with sunlight. Smog can have damaging effects on a person’s health and the environment, because of the chemicals found in many types of smog.

Types of smog :


1. Photochemical Smog

Photochemical smog is a type of air pollution caused by nitrogen oxide, hydrocarbons and sunlight.

2. Sulfurous Smog/London smog

Sulfurous smog results from a high concentration of sulfur oxides being released into the air, because of burning fossil fuels.

3. Volcanic Smog

Volcanic smog is a type of smog that forms when gases and particles are released from an erupting volcano and mix with sunlight, oxygen and moisture.



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Answer 2

Smog :the smog word is derived from smog and fog

This is the most common in example of air pollution that occur in many cities throughout the world there are two types of smog :

Classical smog : classical smog occur in cool humid climate .It is a mixture of smog , fog and sulphur dioxide . Chemically it is a reducing and so it is also called as reducing smog.

Photochemical smog: photochemical smog occur in warm , dry and sunny climate . The main components of the photochemical smog result from the action of sunlight and unsaturated hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides produced by automobiles and factories. Photochemical smog has high concentration of oxidising agent and is , therefore, called as oxidising smog.