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Article: Indoor air: what you can't see can hurt you?
- Article from:
- Real Estate Weekly
- Article date:
- August 19, 1992
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1992 Hagedorn Publication. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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One of the many beauties of nature is the ability to correct the contamination we place in the environment. The wind blows and dilutes the concentrated contaminates that we discharge through smokestacks. Rains fall and remove gases and aerosols from the air. Plants exchange carbon dioxide for oxygen, and lightning neutralizes many other gases that result in odors. The contaminates that we create, if not naturally removed from the air, must rely on our respiratory system to remove them. Modern airtight buildings that have insufficient ventilation have almost totally isolated interior air space from natures healing environment.
Most of the problems are coming from ...