what is smog made up of?

Answer 1

Ask any Londoner about smog! It is dirty air containing the fumes and gases from domestic coal burning fires and from the old fashioned factory chimney stack smoke.In London (around 45/50yrs.ago) this dirt used to hang over the town and when it met up with the evaporation from the Thames it formed a `solid` mass of wet dirty air. It would come down suddenly and all you would see was a yellowish grey thick fog.You could hear sounds around you of people and traffic etc. but you could see nothing, a double-decker bus could be two feet away from you , you would hear it but not see it. You would loose your direction if you had nothing to guide you. People would walk next to a wall or fence and keep touching it so as not to get lost.The smog would last an hour or a day, it would disappear as quickly as it came. It stank of sulphur so did your hair your clothes and the curtains and bedding in the houses. The windows of the shops and houses would be covered in a film of yellow dirt. At the end of the fifties and beginning of the sixties it became less and less frequent, due to the smokeless fuel that was introduced and the introduction of gas and electric heating appliances, both in the homes and in industry. The smog was also responsible for the chronic conditions of many peoples chests/lungs breathing in smog caused respiratory damage.

Answer 2

Smog is a kind of air pollution — the name is a portmanteau of smoke and fog. Classic smog results from large amounts of coal burning in an area and is caused by a mixture of smoke and sulphur dioxide. In the 1950s a new type of smog, known as photochemical smog, was first described. This is a noxious mixture of air pollutants including the following:

Answer 3

Fog coupled with smoke is called smog.

Answer 4

Smog is a concentrated mixture of water vapour (i.e. fog) and varying degrees of air pollution (smoke or particulates from engines, usually car's & lorries). Smog requires still air inorder to collect & its usually heavier than surrounding air so tends to settle in low lying areas or valley bottoms, or in depressions.

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Answer 5

It's often made up of CO2 emmisions and other pollutions. From factories and cars - this is then mixed with a damp fog and becomes heavier than a normal fog and takes longer to shift and is heavier on the lungs.

Answer 6

Water vapour and smoke from fossil fuels

Answer 7

Fog and smoke

Answer 8

it's a portmanteau of the words "smoke" & "fog"

Answer 9

The letters S, M, O and G

Answer 10

Your @r/$e's fumes.