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Carbon .onozide and esons Yere elwsea for this in.estitation.
Carbon .onoside was oBoaen beoawe of its relati.aly non-r .acti.o
aat.rs as an air pollntant and becaase of its .biquity." !be .ain
siternal antlropopnic carbon s,onoride wnroe is tbe iateraal oos-
D .stion engine which aocounts for about 58% of tae peoduotion .6
Gsboa .omzida is a eolorle .s, odorless,- tasteless, srod .nt.1y toiic
bst .ary ha .ardons das that is tbe product ef tM basning of earbon-
aeeos luela In an mqRen defioient en.iroaa.nt . It bonds with
1.nglobin in tAe blood to foris oarboxqb ..odlobin .? ?se effects of
Iew le.d sipoaare of OD ranga i1ron ab.rration. In .isaal acuity to
eLaps in cardiac and pnlaonary funetion d .psndini od tLe oonoentra-
ti0a and duration of the aaposar. S B.aiter and Goldsmith found that
left tss+ axposure to CO at oonc .ntrationJ of 10 to 15 pp. is assoQistei
with increased s,ortalitY.In by .ans,9
Osues ws oLosan b.causs it is an artraely r.aoti.e air pollutant .
It Sa a asoondary product In tLe foraation of pbotoebeiiaal smo` .10
lbis is aloo tb. .ain anthropopnio sonree of osons . It is a eolorlas,
pngeat s.ellins ps that is strssely toxic . tbe recodnis.d issdiate
efferts of oaone ezposars range frot dry taroat to pal .onary sde,a
dependin` on oonC .ntration and duration of esposnre .22 Ior 1.Td,
Lw duration osonO sxposnre of .ice bas b . .a sAovn to inorease litter
aortality. inoreass tM incidence, of heart and blood da .aie . aa v.11
as Seethase the incidenoe of palwnary daaage .u•l3 !be effeots of
sesr esposare are so.wrAat si .ilas to tae effoots of lonisinf radiation
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