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Children Using Slide in Playground Treated for Exposure to Poisoning

...ear freeways where decades of lead-bearing exhaust fumes have created lead deposits could be another source of toxicity for children, it was then warned. Soil often is contaminated by airborne lead particles that drop to the ground and become "a persistent, hard to remove component of the dust matrix." P...

Taj Mahal is Enveloped by Pollution and a Foul Smell

...ntalists and historians, worried that the soot and fumes will eventually turn the gleaming white Taj Mahal black, have raised an alarm for saving the monument. Sugam Anand, a historian with Agra University, says the Taj needs corrective treatment fast."We have to take measures, which will stop that decay,...

Cigarette Smoking Delays Ligament Healing

...ettes in their mouths, but they get enough passive fumes to "smoke" two cigarettes daily, the equivalent of a person smoking about four packs per day. Mice were placed in the smoking chambers for two months prior to MCL surgery and then again after surgery to mimic the behavior of humans who continue to...

Smoking Hampers Healing of the Ligament

...er week. The mice were exposed to enough passive fumes to make up for two cigarettes daily, the equivalent of a person smoking about four packs per day. They were placed in the smoking chambers for two months prior to MCL surgery and then again after surgery to mimic the behaviour of humans who continu...

Green Box Converts Car Fumes into Biofuel

...oped a box known -green box- which can convert car fumes into biofuel. The box can be fixed underneath the car in place of the exhaust. this box traps the unwanted gases. These unwanted gases are also called green house gas such as carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide and they add to the global warming. Th...

Ukrainian Town Under A Canopy Of Toxic Skies

...ing yellow phosphorus caught fire, sending noxious fumes over 35 square miles. According to Transport Minister Mykola Rudkovsky the pressure valves were broken on the aging tankers, which should have been decommissioned five years ago. As of now, Ukraine has suspended rail shipments of yellow phosphorus...

Ban on Hookah Smoking Should Stay, Argue Doctors

...riate since the exposure of non-smokers to tobacco fumes is considerably higher than for cigarette smoking because of the large plume of smoke that the hookah generates. However, it remains to be seen what effect the legislation will have on smoking non-tobacco containing products that still generate a l...

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