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Record 1 2019-03-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Pollution
CONT

During the 1989 Northridge earthquake in California, movement energy propelled bacterial/viral-bearing finesize particles from farmlands into the atmosphere. People who inhaled the contaminated atmosphere suffered from bronchial problems.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pollution de l'air
CONT

[...] l'exposition des conifères à une atmosphère contaminée par un mélange ozone-PAN [nitrate de peroxyacétyle]-NOx [oxydes d'azote] provoque une baisse de cinq fois de la production ligneuse par rapport aux zones témoin de cette immense forêt à l'abri de cette pollution.

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