nitrogen dioxide

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nitrogen dioxide (uncountable)

  1. (inorganic chemistry) The binary compound NO₂, a brownish gas that is a poisonous air pollutant; it exists in equilibrium with dinitrogen tetroxide.
    • 2021 October 6, Philip Haigh, “Pollutants and air quality on our trains”, in RAIL, number 941, page 32:
      Black carbon is the sooty material ejected from diesel engines in their exhaust gases. RSSB notes that it can cause lung diseases. Nitrogen dioxide is also a product of burning diesel and can effect people's lungs.

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