Stop burning the biomass to protect your lungs (IMAGE)

Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Stop burning the biomass to protect your lungs

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Are you burning garbage? Stop doing it. When you burn garbage, you produce 4-nitrocatechol and levoglucosan, which disrupt biological membranes and enter our first line of defense against volatile compounds - damaging our lung cells. Acknowledgements to Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw for providing the facility for the photo shoot.  Photo courtesy: Grzegorz Krzyżewski

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Source: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski

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