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| Greenhouse gases works to trap heat in Earth’s atmosphere. |
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| greenhouse prevents heat from escaping into the atmosphere |
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| Global warming is the unusually rapid increase in Earth's average surface temperature over the past century primarily due to the greenhouse gases released by people burning fossil fuels |
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| Climate change includes both the global warming driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases, and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns. |
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| are natural and artificial airborne substances that are introduced into the environment in a concentration sufficient to have a measurable effect on humans, animals, vegetation, or building materials. |
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| Acid rain is a rain or any other form of precipitation that is unusually acidic. |
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| Acid deposition is produced by a chemical reaction that begins when compounds like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides are released into the air. |
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| is a major by-product of industrial processes, it’s also a combustion of fossil fuels like natural gas. |
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| it is a colorless non-flammable gas, with a slight metallic scent and taste |
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| liming can neutralize acidic waters and detoxify heavy metals. |
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| a device installed on the smokestacks of many industrial plants to burn coal. |
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| any process that chemically breaks down or degrades a metal |
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| a usually reddish brown oxide formed by the reaction of iron and oxygen in the presence of water or air moisture. |
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| It is a process of applying zinc coating to iron and steel, the coating adheres to the base metal and resists chipping and cracking. |
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| is a metal used as a sacrificial anode in cathodic protection that corrodes to prevent a primary metal from corrosion, galvanization or rusting. |
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