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Castañeda-López said that facilities that handle these types of materials can create highly localized hotspots of particulate matter pollution due to wind blowing dust into nearby neighborhoods and homes.
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But as is common for Independence Day, fireworks sent soot levels soaring in Louisville, with city monitors registered a sharp spike in the smallest particulate pollution starting around 9 p.m., records from the district show.
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The risk of death climbed when seniors were exposed to as little as 5 micrograms of fine particulate matter per cubic meter of air, though the legal limit is 12 micrograms.
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Since 1999 Hong Kong has curbed roadside levels of nitrogen oxides by 56 percent, and fine particulate matter, known as PM2.5, by 52 percent, according to 2016 government data.
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Air monitors would be placed around the site to collect air samples and measure any dust and particulate matter that may occur.
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But even as air pollution from particulate matter and sulfur dioxide has improved, the U.S. EPA has continued to strengthen its restrictions on these categories, which has made those clean-air criteria levels more difficult to reach, MacDonald said.
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Research funded by the program has shown how increased air pollution leads to a decrease in life expectancy, pinpointing risks from particulate matter that inform air quality standards today.
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Riverside County, in which Calvert’s district sits, received grants to address ozone and particulate matter pollution for the 2016 fiscal year.
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Origin and Etymology of particulate
Latin particula
particulate
Definition of particulate
: a particulate substance
Recent Examples of particulate from the Web
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That was a problem for the U.S. federal research facility Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), which needed something that could carry lots of equipment to measure solar irradiance, three-dimensional windspeed, and analyze air particulates.
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Generating capacity would be improved from 920 megawatts to 1,200 megawatts while emissions of carbon monoxide and particulates would be cut by 70 percent, according to FPL.
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Natural gas releases less than half as much carbon dioxide and none of the particulates.
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Ford also offers an optional automatic regeneration inhibitor on 2018 diesel trucks to give the operator more control over when the engine goes into regeneration to clean the diesel particulate filter.
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Winter air pollution is mainly caused by particulates or soot pollution from wood smoke, the district reminds.
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Tiny particulates called PM 2.5, which are small enough to work their way past all your body’s filtration defenses, dropped 47 percent in the same period.
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PM 2.5 is composed of tiny particulates that can lodge in breathing passageways.
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First Known Use of particulate
1942
Medical Dictionary
Medical Definition of particulate
1: of, relating to, or existing in the form of minute separate particles dust, smoke, and other particulate matter
2: of or relating to particulate inheritance the particulate theory of heredity—Julian Huxley
particulate
Medical Definition of particulate
: a particulate substance emission of particulates by car engines cytoplasmic particulates in the cell
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