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The Health Ministry and the Environmental Protection Ministry both issued warnings, advising all to avoid strenuous outdoor activities and close any open windows. Israel's air quality plummeted on ...

THE portable dust-counting apparatus, with which the observations given in the paper were taken, was shown to the meeting. The apparatus, which was described in a previous communication to the Society ...

Unraveling the chemical processes in soot particle filters reveals new ways to produce synthetic fuels. Carbon particles are present in many aspects of our daily lives. Soot, which consists of tiny ...

As the cold wave receded, toxic air blanketed much of South Korea on Thursday, prompting a dust advisory for Seoul and other central-western regions. According to the Korea Meteorological ...

Oxygen is one of the few precious things that keep us alive, and over the years it has become one of the crucial chemical elements that keeps some of our technologies running. Without it, our society ...

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