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make up your own mind dw, may for mine's the the, these colorful rings this acid lake and this blue fire all exists because of one element. so for the yellow stuff can be both completely harmless and extremely toxic. it's found in our bodies, our food, and also in volcanoes. if you've ever smelled a rotten egg or part, the copper was sulfur, but unfortunately heating it up also makes a highly toxic gas. it's also responsible for one of the scariest sounding environmental catastrophes. acid rain, and contributes to millions of deaths every year. by extracting and burning fossil fuels, we're spewing it into the atmosphere. the story of software has both aluminum crisis and environmental success, and not enough people are talking about it. software is one of the

more abundant elements in the universe and combined with other elements can become one of the smell is you can find it in the ocean, the earth's crust and the toxic gotten squared, venus. it's also the 3rd most common mineral in our bodies. our bodies are made up of around a 150 grams of solver, but in its solid pure form, it's both tasteless and odorless. compounds of it are found in many fluids, including broccoli, cauliflower, a, tongue in garlic. sophie is actually responsible for the strong smell that garlic makes it crushed. another sulfur compound gives broccoli and cauliflower, their distinctive taste. and if you find yourself with a particularly smelly onion, that's because of a cell for compound as well. these trips test for cell, for compounds and liquids. the good thing about software is that it can prevent bacteria growth and stop alcohol from turning the vinegar. it's also sign

in water from wells or springs. seems like this burdened tap water doesn't contain much salt for this beer. and wine definitely do another place to find software is in the sky, little bit. so for doc set up that happens to your concert is what we call cloud condensation. nuclei essentially will little platforms for clouds to build around the cows. father is a climate scientist and researcher clouds that can be more reflect is an inbound smartlight back space. so the combined effects lead to about half the degree studied rate of cooling globally compared to a world when we didn't have these are saw mission. in other words, saw for in the atmosphere actually slows down. global warming seems pretty good, right? but so for actually is a dark side. it's one of the most reactive elements on the periodic table. that means it changes form easily when in contact with other elements. it's also

super plane level, that's why matches are covered with it. the sofa keeps the fire burning long enough to light a candle. ready ready ready burning silver can look like a hell scape, like at this indonesian volcano. ready ready when matches are lit, a small quantity of a cell for gas is created, and this matches a mini version of the solver pollution problems. those gases, these yellow sulfur molecules form and other elements are toxic. one of them is hydrogen sulfide tucker with 2 hydrogen atoms. this gas is found naturally in wetlands swamps and hot springs. it's what gives human and animal waste. it's nasty smell because it's created in small amounts by bacteria in your mouth and got and inhaling. it is one of the leading causes of workplace steps from chemicals because exposure can kill you immediately. another nice yourself or gas is software dioxide . if i were to light this pure silver on fire, it would change more fun powder into a bad situation really quickly here. sulfur dioxide would come off of it,

which is really not good for health. and that thing i shouldn't do. that's exactly what we've been doing for a long time on a planetary scale. so software position is mainly costs by building for sealed fios edmunds and in the auto researches chemical pollution in the environment. and also industry decides is refining petroleum in low to mid totes. this visualization prepared by green piece with nasa data shows worldwide software pollution coal plants in russia and oil refineries and saudi arabia and iran are some of the biggest sol for gas emission hotspots, worldwide. fossil fuels and naturally contain software. they can release. so for gas when they're extracted and again when they're burned. another source of sulfur pollution is from the metal production. some metals naturally contain sulfur. it's also used during the purification process which can release pollution into the atmosphere that we didn't always know. all of this fossil fuel

use took off around the 19 fifties and it 1st everything was fine. but around the 1970s people started noticing something weird. the rain was more acidic than it used to be. remember how silver farms cloud, too much suffering clouds can react with other elements to form. so if you're an acid, an acid rain, oceans, lakes and rivers become more acetic hurting marine animals. it also affects the ph of soil. we know of plants, the creator use since it thinks the temperature in regarding a ph. he's also going to affects how the plants i blinked up, so the nutrients that they need to grow. but software doesn't need to rain down on us for to have devastating effect. it's harmless in this form. but exposure to solve for gases can range from irritating the respiratory tract and eyes to nausea, neurological effects, even dest sophie pollution from coal, contributed to the near constant london fog of the 19th century. people suffered and died from as 9 bronchitis which still place those living new oil refineries and

cold plants today. and silver particles also form pm 2.5 fine particles that are significant part of global air pollution. if you light a match a couple times or if you like sitting around a campfire and you know they are placing a breather, is it good for you? but if you're not doing that all day every day, it's not going to be that bad for your health. whereas, you know, if you're living in beijing and your air looks like a piece, oops, that's where it really starts creating various severe medical problems as my purchasing and stuff like that. and a lot of that software pollution is caused by burning coal need to film this outside for obvious reasons. as coal like this is essentially just pulled out of the ground. it's still contains a lot of sulfur apart from volcanoes, burning coal is responsible for more sulfur pollution than anything else. when burned in power plants to is, is called scrubbers can remove the software from the emissions. but if money or

infrastructure is lacking, scrubbers don't end up doing so much scrubbing. there's obviously also coal that is burned outside of power plants. can berlin, for example, some apartments of coal furnaces for heating during the winter. and this is the exact fuel that they use and those emissions come out of the chimney, they're putting sulfur directly into the atmosphere. worldwide. china has been the largest, a mentor of sulfur and recent decades. because industrialization there was heavily reliant on coal. and along with burning coal came out to our air pollution responsible for over $1000000.00 deaths per year. because of this, the country has recently taken major steps to reduce software emissions. in other countries, the amount of coal being burned is actually going up. when you it looks, if i, you wrote it, they need to be some energy source in what is be quick exhaust. that is what it so that's called but it isn't all bad news. if you haven't really heard much about acid rain or so for gas recently, because there's been a very big effort to stop at the,

in the low rate conditions across the welds where we would think to lead me to the discharge of sulfur. didn't to be a to most viewed, much of the software is removed from oil and gas during their finding process already before it. so to consumers. extracted software is turned into pesticides, fertilizers, and so for eric acid, because it's a by product of the oil and gas industry, we have a ton of it so much in canada, their solid software just sitting around as a result, atmospheric. so for gases have decreased significantly over the past decades. and regulations are still getting tighter. 2020. so the 1st ones on shipping fuel before then ships brenda, dirtiest oil full of sulphur. but in now the last 8 or 3, there's been more studies about the health impacts and burning the steel in ports with a couple studies suggesting that somewhere in the range of 20 to 60000 people globally, you may die prematurely. you do to exposure to suffer to that pollution from shipping. and it turns out that about 10 percent of all of the silver dioxide that

we make globally comes from shipping. and with less software released into the sky, there are fewer clouds over the ocean. this usually good news has one small problem . fewer clouds mean less sunlight is reflected. this is predicted to one the planet equivalent to 2 years of extra greenhouse gas emissions. quite a tricky trade off, but experts say reducing sulfur emissions. it's still worth it to walk. combining sulfur pollution is one of those rare environmental successes. this stuff is stopping us from putting our party hats on just yet. removing solver from fuels has caused a significant drop in worldwide pollution. we're going to see it fall further from the recent regulations on marine fuel, but there's still more software in the atmosphere than there should be. an enforcing software regulations in one part of the world, only partially solve the problem. if oil refineries elsewhere are still releasing it into the air. so all regulations are important. shift away from fossil fuels is the only thing that will tackle toxic solve for gases for good. if you want to know

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