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  1. Aug 2024
    1. It’s also important to recognize that chemical exposures don’t happen one at a time, and that we’re constantly exposed to groups of chemicals that may act together to harm our health, he said. “Hot days can create situations where people are breathing many harmful chemicals at the same time,”

      This worries me about the future of the planet since the climate is getting hotter and hotter.

    2. the main ingredient of smog, as well as cancer-causing formaldehyde — both of which form readily in hot weather.

      In HSC 101 we talked about lung cancer and one of the common causes is odorless gass called Radon. According to the US radon emission map SC is among the highest. I wonder if we can do l lke a experiment on radon detection

    3. Two vans loaded with precision instruments trundled along the streets of New York and New Jersey in the heat earlier this week, sniffing for toxic chemicals in the air.

      This kind of reminds me of the classic scene in the show breaking bad, but only the one in breaking bad is emmiting toxic chemicals and this van is detecting it. I wonder will be using the kind of sniffing equipment used by the van in the article