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sulfur dioxide
Definition:
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Emissions of the gas given off during the burning of fossil fuels in power stations and other boilers. Sulphur dioxide is created because sulphur is an impurity in most coal and oils. When the fuel is burned the hot sulphur reacts with oxygen in the atmosphere to form sulphur dioxide.
* Note: Definition is not available for the current language
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oxide |
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sulfur oxide | |
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gaseous air pollutant |
Scope note:
scope note is not available
Groups:
CHEMISTRY, SUBSTANCES, PROCESSES
Themes:
air
chemistry
Other relations:
- Has exact match
- AGROVOC: Sulphur dioxide
- EuroVoc: anhydride
- EEA Determinant: Sulphur dioxide (SO2)
- Wikipedia article
- Sulfur dioxide
- Has close match
- UMTHES: Schwefel-Dioxid
| Arabic: | ثاني أكسيد الكبريت |
| Basque: | sufre dioxido |
| Bulgarian: | Серен диоксид |
| Catalan: | diòxid de sofre |
| Chinese: | 二氧化硫 |
| Croatian: | sumporni dioksid |
| Czech: | oxid siřičitý |
| Danish: | svovldioxid |
| Dutch: | zwaveldioxide |
| English: | sulphur dioxide |
| Estonian: | vääveldioksiid |
| Finnish: | rikkidioksidi |
| French: | dioxyde de soufre |
| German: | Schwefeldioxid |
| Greek: | διοξίδιο του θείου |
| Hungarian: | kén-dioxid |
| Irish: | dé-ocsaíd sulfair |
| Italian: | diossido di zolfo |
| Latvian: | sēra dioksīds |
| Lithuanian: | sieros dioksidas |
| Maltese: | dijossidu tal-kubrit |
| Norwegian: | svoveldioksid |
| Polish: | dwutlenek siarki |
| Portuguese: | dióxido de enxofre |
| Romanian: | dioxid de sulf |
| Russian: | диоксид серы |
| Slovak: | oxid siričitý |
| Slovenian: | žveplov dioksid |
| Spanish: | dióxido de azufre |
| Swedish: | svaveldioxid |
| Turkish: | sülfür dioksit |
| Ukrainian: | діоксид сірки |
Concept URL: <http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/8202>
