Chemicals linked to illnesses that come from the air!
Chemistry Department, Loreto College, Coleraine
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Pollution is a so-called  "Green Issue". There is a tendency for books to concentrate mainly on the long term  risks of pollution and on the damage caused to our environment. As a consequence, the short-term and direct effects on people are underplayed. We take the opportunity here to redress the balance just a little.

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Contributed by the Y11 Triple Award class of October 2002.	Carbon Monoxide. By Una Mullan.	Ozone. By Paddy Boyle.	Pesticides & Insecticides. By Dervla O'Kane
Composition of NORMAL dry air. By Julie-Ann Mc Clean.	Nitrogen Oxides. By Michael Colgan.	Lead Compounds By Paddy Burns.	Paticulates. By Charlotte McAfee.
Role of the Environmental  Health Office By Claire Mulholland.	Sulphur Dioxide. By Sarah Connolly.	Radioactive Chemicals By Emma O'Donnell	It's far from "all-bad"!  Good Chemistry By Zakiyya Devaney.
Learning more and doing more to protect our environment & ourselves!
Friends of the Earth	Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Environment	Current Issues	Factory Watch N Ireland, England & Wales

It is at least encouraging that measures taken since the early 1970s 
show that, due to various National and International initiatives,
levels of some of these atmospheric chemicals have fallen.
See the illustration directly below.

Periodic Table of Elements with
health and environmental effects on each!

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