The Contamination of the Environment with Vehicle Exhausts
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aUnesco Laboratory of Environmental Electrochemistry, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Charles University, bInstitute of Hygiene, The First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague
The influence of motor vehicle exhausts on the environment and human health is briefly reviewed with special emphasis on carbon (mon)oxide, nitrogen oxides, ozone , sulphur dioxide, lead, volatile organic substances, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and nitrated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.