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Advantages And Disadvantages Of Environmental Pollution

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Introduction
Environmental pollution is a multidisciplinary science chemistry, physics, agriculture, life sciences, health , medicine , health , etc. In a broader sense it is the study of the sources, reactions , transport , effects and fate of chemical species in the air, water and soil and the effect of human activity on this.
Pollutant means a substance in the environment, greater than the natural abundance due to human activity, which ultimately has a detrimental effect on the environment and so on living organisms and the human race . Examples are- lead, mercury , sulfur dioxide , carbon monoxide , etc.
Contaminant : A material that does not occur in nature but that is introduced by human activity on the environment , affecting their composition. A pollution classified as a pollutant when an adverse effect is exerted . Exemplary chlorine

Types of Pollution
Air
Causes of air pollution:
• Car exhaust
• power plants
• Manufacturing vehicles
• fertilizer manufacturers
• tearing down buildings
• evaporation of chemicals
• Explosion of volcano’s
• constructing roads
• Jungle fire

Effect of air pollution: ozone exhaustion ,Global warming, acid rain, smog are some effects of air pollution

Water
Causes of water pollution:
• synthetic chemicals used in agriculture
• heavy metals
• waste from factories
• sediment from the river bed
• Air pollution
• thermal (heat) pollution
• soil contamination from landfill gas
Effects of water pollution:
Water is used in the

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