London Type Smog

A combination of several gases and particulate matter that forms during a cover of fog or in the event of a low lying temperature inversion. The gases present include sulfur dioxide as a result of the burning of coal for use as energy, and the particulate matter included calcium sulfide as a result of acid deposition. [Science of the Total Environment; v334-335; 435-445; 2004.]

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