CHEM 1001 Lecture 8: General chemistry lecture notes

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 1001
• Professor: Robert Burk

Document Summary

Whenever you burn stuff, it will end up in smog. This step is to produce nitrogen dioxide. From cars ( hcs + no) + hv -> produce no2 + other stuff (e. g haze, brownish color) No2 + hv (visible light) -> no + o (radical species very reactive) The net effect here is the production of single oxygen. As soon you produce oxygen atom, you produce the ozone. And single electron that make oxygen radical. The concentration of ozone can also cause the smog to increase as well. Ozone is a big indicator of the smog in the city. Brownish colour of smog is come from this reaction. You can go from brown to colorless if you change the temperature. When the coil burns so as sulfur and also produce acid rain. The reaction is s(in coal) + o2(g) -> so2(g) Putting sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere will cost a lot of money.