Air Quality Monitoring, Assessment and Management

• Other Authors: Mazzeo, Nicolás A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: IntechOpen 2011
• Subjects: Pollution & threats to the environment
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Human beings need to breathe oxygen diluted in certain quantity of inert gas for living. In the atmosphere, there is a gas mixture of, mainly, oxygen and nitrogen, in appropriate proportions. However, the air also contains other gases, vapours and aerosols that humans incorporate when breathing and...