How are toxic brown carbon nitroaromatics produced in biomass smoke?, by University of Kentucky – PHYS

Photo: Marcelo Guzmán

Biomass burning from wildfires puts large amounts of aromatic hydrocarbons in the atmosphere every year, which are thought to convert into more light-absorbing and toxic nitroaromatics. "This is a really interesting problem and not easy to investigate," said Marcelo Guzman…

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