Household Air Pollution is a significant form of indoor air pollution mostly relating to cooking and heating methods used in developing countries. Since much of the cooking is carried out with biomass
Traditional wood-burning stoves, causing household air pollution
Solar cookers use sunlight as energy source for outdoor cooking.
Particulate matter or particulates are microscopic particles of solid or liquid matter suspended in the air. The combination of particulates and air is called an aerosol. Sources of particulate matter
Household air pollution
…Smoke from traditional household solid fuel combustion commonly contains a range of incomplete combustion products, including both fine and coarse particulate matter (e.g., PM2.5, PM10), carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2), and a variety of organic air pollutants. Technology-based…
PM2.5 and PM10 compared with a human hair in a graphic from the Environmental Protection Agency
Excavator (a type of heavy equipment commonly used at construction sites and roadworks) demolishing the remnants of the pre-war Postal Train 0880Station (Dworzec Pocztowy) at Jerozolimskie Avenue, Poland
Horizon and layers of the atmosphere as seen from NASA Earth Observatory: troposphere (darkest), tropopause (brown), stratosphere (gray), mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere (blues). Colors are due to the dominant gases and particles in each layer.
Air pollution measurement station in Emden, Germany