A General Description Of A Nitrous Fogger

Acid rain contains acids that form up in the atmosphere when gas emissions such as, nitrous oxide and sulfur oxide combine with water vapour. ... The rest of the gasses come from nitrous oxides (NOx) which are made up of various forms of nitrogen (NO2 + NO3). ... Prior to falling to the earth, sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrous oxide (NOx) gases contribute to poor visibility and harm public health. ... Wet deposition relates to acidic rain, fog and snow. ... • Fit cars with catalytic converters to reduce nitrous oxide (NOx) emissions, and service vehicles regularly. ...

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"Fog" by Carl Sandburg starts off right with a metaphor, he says, "The fog comes on little cat feet," it is also imagery because he wants us to imagine the fog in a catlike way. ... The line also gives us the idea that the fog is moving slowly towards us creeping its way through, just like a cat is very slow and cautious. ... We imagine the metaphor in the first stanza as a fog looking catlike, but not the fog is, "sitting," just like a cat would, with their body spread out like fog does. ... The fog is, "over," us, like it is watching over every move. ...

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The Chrysanthemums Explication John Stienbeck's short story, "The Chrysanthemums" tells of the isolation that Elisa Allen, and on a larger scale women in general, struggle through. This short story provides many indications of this with the use of the setting, and detailed descriptions of Elisa Allen. ... Like the flannel-fog, the wire fence is a barrier, however it is not a barrier in the same sense as the flannel-fog: the wire fence is a barricade that separates Elisa's two worlds. ... However, by giving into her husband's ways, she in part loses a sense of her identity,...

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He talks of the London fog (or the London Particular) in the same way. ... There is 'fog up the river' and 'fog on the Essex marshes', there are literal, and it carries on as such for a little while, until the switch comes with the fog being 'in the eyes and throats' and 'cruelly pinching the toes and fingers of his shivering little 'prentice boy on deck' to the metaphorical. ... These paragraphs create atmosphere by using the description of 'Implacable November weather', the darkness with 'the death of the sun', the &apos...

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He also gave a brief description about the "Trail of Tears" in which about 4,000 Natives were killed on an 800-mile hike westward. ... Even though it was a brief description, it was filled with so much detail that the important points were explained very validly. ... For example, when Remini writes about the Battle of New Orleans in the beginning, he describes the weather and the mist of fog surrounding the soldiers, and how the rockets to go up to warn the British that the Americans are ready. As he describes the battlefield, he also illustrates General Andrew Jackson on horseback, so he...

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"Fog" occurs repeatedly throughout the passage thus making it easy for the reader to comprehend the idea that Dickens is trying to get across. ... Dickens also repeatedly uses independent clauses in his sentences to create a very vivid description of the scenery. On multiple occasions in the selection you find that Dickens has used compound sentences joined together with a semicolon, and example is, "Fog creeping into the caboose of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats"(1). This sentence s...

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Another reverse meaning of the colour white is the description of the fog, on page 41. "When the sun rose there was a white fog, very warm and clammy, and more blinding than the night". The white fog is suffocating and preventing Marlow from continuing his journey down the Congo. The white fog is "more blinding than the night", which itself had created a "dumb immobility sat on the banks". ... His first description of them is "black shapes". ...

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It was early in the morning when the troops decided to move in and a fog was set among the sharp lava rocks. The Modocs were hidden by the fog, they knew the terrain, and took advantage of the excellent concealment provided by the hundreds of outcroppings and ridges. The troops brought in cannons to quickly take over but due to the immensely thick fog, the troops couldn't see where to fire. ... On March 23, 1873 General Canby arrived and went out to overlook the battlefield. ... On April 11, General Canby personally went to the meeting along with a few others. ...

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The fog must have been very thick and heavy, for Rainsford had to strain his eyes to try to see through it. ... As much as figurative language is used to describe the scenery and mood at hand, the use of figurative language as a means for description of the characters in the story is also an important aspect in literature. Furthermore, the author describes the general as mean and uncaring when he writes; "The general was a Devil". ... The general was a person with no care for human dignity for others. ... I think this quote is one of the more important ones in the story because it shows th...

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