Eight-Fold Levitation of Air Pollution across City during Weekend!
Posted on: 07/Jun/2014 10:10:17 AM
Chennai city perceives high pollution during the last weekend, since the focus of specific substance (PM10) poised in the ambiance go beyond the allowable bound of 100mg per cm.
According to the ambient air quality data of Alandur in Chennai, which has been released by the Central Pollution Control Board for the continuous two days during weekends, the PM10 level was elevated over 600mg per cm many times in Saturday and traversed above 800 mg per cm on Sunday morning.
This elevation is mainly due to huge traffic in road by May 31 and June 1, as people were going back to their place from their vacation since many schools reopened on 2 June.
As per the environmental specialists, particulate substance is the word for solid / liquid matter originated in the air. Few particles are bug and dark sufficient to be witness as dirt or smoke. Rest others are too tiny that they can be noticed only through an electron microscope.
Particulate substances can be exactly released or can be shaped in the atmosphere when gaseous contaminants like sulphur-di-oxide and the nitrogen oxides counter to structure tiny particles.
Those substances that are even less than 10 mm (PM10) are so petite that they can easily get into the lungs, there by rooting stern health issues as it is slighter than the thickness of a solitary human hair.
