The pollution

• It is caused by issues of various origin;

• All the organisms are exposed to the same pollutants;

• the contaminants can be physical, chemists and biological.

Atmospheric Particolato

• The suspended particles that compose it are substances at solid and liquid state that, for their small dimensions, are suspended in atmosphere for longer periods; the total dusts suspended or DTS are also called PM (Particulate Matter).

• The particolato in the air can be constituted by different substances: sand, ashes, dusts, soot, flinty substances of various nature, vegetable substances, composed metallic, natural and artificial textile fibers, salts, elements as the carbon or the lead, etc.

• On the bases of the nature and the dimensions of the particles we can distinguish:

• - the aerosols, constituted by solid or liquid particles suspended in air and with an inferior diameter to 1 micron (1 µm);

• - hazes, given by droplets with inferior diameter to 2 microns;

• - the exhalations, constituted by solid particles with inferior diameter to 1 micron and usually released from chemical trials and metalworkers;

• - smoke, given usually by solid particles with inferior diameter to the 2 µms and transported by mixtures of gas;

• - dusts (real), constituted by solid particles with diameter between 0,25 and 500 microns;

• - sands, given by solid particles with superior diameter to 500 µms.

Asbestos Asbestos is the name given to a

group of mineral highly fibrosis that can naturally be found in the environment: the Crisotilo (also called white asbestos), belonging to the mineralogical series of the serpentine one; and the anfibolis Crocidolite (blue asbestos), Amosite (brown asbestos), Antofillite, Actinolite and Tremolite.

Asbestos’ characteristics

These minerals:

haven't any odor or taste;

are very resistant to heat and to the most part of the chemical substances;

are easily workable;

They are taken from:

opened-sky mines following the grinding of the rock and its enrichment.

Carbon’s monoxideIt is a gas:colorlessunscentedinflammablevery toxic.It’s formed during the combustions of the organic substances and produced

by the unloadings of the motorvehicles.

Effects on the man:Its dangerousness is due to the

formation with the hemoglobin of the blood of an physiologically inactive mixture, the carboxyhemoglobin, that prevents the oxygenation of the tissues. To low concentrations it provokes migraines, diffused weakness, fits of dizziness; to greater concentrations it can provoke lethal results.

Benzene C6H6• The benzene is an aromatic

hydrocarbon structured in hexagonal ring and it is constituted by 6 atoms of carbon and 6 atoms of hydrogen (formula C6H6). It represents the aromatic substance with a simpler molecular structure and for this it can be defined the composed-basic of the class of the aromatic hydrocarbons.

• The benzene to temperature environment is introduced as a colorless liquid that very quickly evaporates to the air. It's characterized by a prickly and sweetish odor. It is highly inflammable substance, but its dangerousness is mainly due to the fact that it provokes crabs.

• the dangerousness of the benzene has been broadly shown by numerous medical rearches, for its ample use this substance is practically irreplaceable. A lot of industries use it to produce other chemical mixtures.

• The annual world production of benzene overcomes by now the 30 million of tons and is due for the most greater part to the distillation of the oil, even if a notable proportion of benzene is still gotten by the distillation of the oil of tar of coal fossil.

Chloride of vinyl C2H2Cl• The chloride of vinyl is a

gas:toxiccarcinogenicinflammable so unstable at normal

environmental conditions which once mixed with the air it can become explosive.

Chloride of vinyl C2H2Cl

• The whole existing chloride of vinyl has been produced by man and it is the result of the degradation of other artificial substances as the tricloroetilene, the tricloroetano or the tetracloroetilene.

• Then the whole environmental pollution and the damages to own health, due to this substance, are to be imputed exclusively to man because it is the material used to realize a great variety of plastic products and up to the mid ’70 it was also employed as refrigerant gas, propellent for spray and as component of some cosmetic products.

IPA: Aromatics Polycuclics Hydrocarbons

• The term IPA is the Italian acronym of Aromatics Polycyclics Hydrocarbons, a numerous class of organic mixtures all structurally characterized by the presence of two or more aromatic rings condensed among each other.

IPA: Aromatics Polycuclics Hydrocarbons

• The simplest ipa from the structural point of view is the naphthalene, a mixture of two rings that as pollutant dispersed in the air is found above all in gaseous form at temperature environment.

Nitrogen oxide NOx

The term NOx is used

to indicate the sum

weighed of: the nitrogen

monoxide (No) the nitrogen

dioxide (NO2).

The nitrogen oxide (NO)

It is a gas:colorless tasteless unscented produced especially during the

processes of combustion at high temperature together with the nitrogen dioxide

the toxicity is limited

The nitrogen dioxide (NO2)

It's produced by the oxidation of nitrogen oxide in atmosphere.It is a toxic gas:of yellow-red colorof strong and prickly odor and with

great irritating power.It is:an energetic oxidizergreatly reagent and therefore highly

corrosive

The nitrogen dioxide (NO2)

• It develops a fundamental role in the formation of the photochemical smog because it constitutes the base intermediary for the production of a whole series of very dangerous secondary pollutants as the ozone, the nitric acid, the nitrous acid, etc.

Radon RnChemically it is a noble gas as helium or argon, it is unscented, colorless, tasteless and it hardly reacts with the other chemical mixtures. It's well 8 times heavier than the air, it is a gas that is originated following the radioactive decadence of elements as uranium and radio (which are present in varying quantity in the whole terrestrial crust).

Charateristics:

• Typically it is emitted by the ground and it can be spread in the air of houses freeing itself from openings or microfractures of the foundations.

• This gas can also be freed by some construction material or by the spring water or withdrawn by the subsoil.

Effects:

• The radon is dangerous for inhalation: so much greater its concentration is in the air so higher is the possibility to develop a tumor following the exposure of the cells of the respiratory apparatus to the radiations emitted during the radioactive decadence.

Ozone The ozone is a toxic gas of bluish color, constituted by unstablemolecules formed by three atoms of oxygen (O3); these molecules

easily separate themselves freeing molecular oxygen (O2) and an atom

of extremely reactive oxygen (O3—> O2+O). For these

characteristics the ozone is therefore an energetic oxiding that can demolish material bothorganic and inorganic.

Charateristics:

Where it is present:For more than 90% in the stratosphere

where it is produced by the molecular oxygen for action of the ultraviolet rays solariums

In the troposphere, because of the atmospheric circulation in the lowest layers of the atmosphere

It is produced during various chemical

reactions in presence of the light of the

sun beginning from the primary pollutants,

in particular way from the nitrogen dioxide.

Effects:

The effects on man of an excessive

exposure to the ozone concern essentially

the respiratory apparatus and the eyes; it

must be signaled out the harmful action

towards the vegetation and destructive one

towards the materials.

Oxide of sulphur

Normally the oxides ofsulphur which are present in atmosphere are:• the sulphurous anhydride

(SO2);• the sulphuric anhydride

(SO3). These mixtures are also called SOx.

The sulphurous anhydride

It is a gas: colorless irritating not inflammable very soluble in water of prickly odor heavier than the air so it has the tendency to stratify itself in the

lowest zones.

Characteristics:

It derives from the oxidation of the sulphur during the processes of combustion of the substances which contain this element both as

impurity (as the combustible fossils) and asconstituent fundamental.

• From the oxidation of the sulphurous anhydride the sulphuric anhydride or trioxide of sulphur that, reacting with water, either liquid or at the state of vapor, quickly originates the sulphuric acid, responsible to a large extent of the phenomenon of the sour rains.