nitrogen dioxide en · NOUN
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(uncountable) The binary compound NO₂, a brownish gas that is a poisonous air pollutant; it exists in equilibrium with dinitrogen tetroxide. It can be the poisonous result of a nitric acid spill contacting ambient air.
Black carbon is the sooty material ejected from diesel engines in their exhaust gases. RSSB notes that it can cause lung diseases. Nitrogen dioxide is also a product of burning diesel and can effect people's lungs.
2021 October 6, Philip Haigh, “Pollutants and air quality on our trains”, in RAIL, number 941, page 32:
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Hypernyms
nitrogen oxide · substance · material · NOx · oxide · compound
Translations (23)
it biossido di azoto (the binary compound NO2) · nn nitrogendioksid (the binary compound NO2) · yue 二氧化氮 (the binary compound NO2) · nb nitrogendioksid (the binary compound NO2) · fr dioxyde d'azote (the binary compound NO2) · pt dióxido de nitrogénio (the binary compound NO2) · pt dióxido de azoto (the binary compound NO2) · id nitrogen dioksida (the binary compound NO2) · es dióxido de nitrógeno (the binary compound NO2) · ast dióxidu de nitróxenu (the binary compound NO2) · it diossido di azoto (the binary compound NO2) · pt dióxido de nitrogênio (the binary compound NO2) · ja 二酸化窒素 (the binary compound NO2) · fi typpidioksidi (the binary compound NO2) · ro dioxid de azot (the binary compound NO2) · de Nitrogendioxid (the binary compound NO2) · cs oxid dusičitý (the binary compound NO2) · ko 이산화질소 (the binary compound NO2) · pl dwutlenek azotu (the binary compound NO2) · hu nitrogén-dioxid (the binary compound NO2) · it ipoazotide (the binary compound NO2) · cmn 二氧化氮 (the binary compound NO2) · de Stickstoffdioxid (the binary compound NO2)