What Do Smokestacks Release?

Coal power plants use tall smokestacks to release air pollutants like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides high into the atmosphere, in an effort to disperse pollution and decrease the impact on the local community.

What comes out of factory smokestacks?

Smokestack Smoke and Air Pollution

Noxious gases include sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and chemical vapors.

What do short smokestacks emit?

Some of these pollutants include nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulfur oxides (SOx), carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and particulate matter.

Chloe Bennett

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