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All About Smoke & Its Ventilation System

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Smoke is something each one of us is all too familiar with in our daily lives. It emanates from factories, from our vehicles, from our homes and is around us almost all the time, even when we don’t notice it. But exactly is smoke? Do we understand its characteristics and dangers as well as we should? More importantly, are we taking enough measures to decrease the production of harmful elements such as smoke into our world? Let us briefly discuss the answers to all these questions today. According to a standard definition, smoke is a visible suspension of particles and gasses that is produced when something is burned. Typically, we consider both vapours and fumes smoke but there is a difference - vapours are usually heated water aka stream and not that dangerous. On the other hand, fumes are an amalgamation of gaseous and metallic elements usually formed at high temperatures which later cools down. They are extremely dangerous for humans and the atmosphere. Several differ

How Oil & Coal Smoke is Dangerous For Atmosphere

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Oil is primarily used in industries and homes for power generation and heating purposes respectively among others. Oil is possibly on the other end of the spectrum when it comes to the production of pollutants as almost any compound found in any other fossil fuels’ smoke can also be found in oil. Coal is equally as dangerous for the environment and human health when it is burned. It is primarily used in power plants as a means to generate power. In 1952, the great smog of London happened for 4 days due to excessively overworked coal factories producing a lot of smoke over the course of many years which in a lot of ways contributed in the happening of that smog. The smog resulted in the death of thousands of people. At time, the death count was believed to be 4000 but recent research and study estimated that to be close to 12,000 which is just staggering for a 4 days smog in one city. This goes to show that we need to do a lot to make sure our production of smoke is reduced to