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In article <DABE.94Jan18184256@goober.cs.umd.edu>,
Dabe "Dabe" Murphy <dabe@cs.umd.edu> wrote:
>In article <2heq61$lfv@access.digex.net> jb@access.digex.net (John) writes:
>>
>> ... Have you ever followed any tractor
>> trailer trying to accelrate?  You can be blinded by the billowing smoke.
>
>Correct me if I'm wrong (And it's been a long time since I've taken High

You are wrong.   

>School Chemistry, so I may well be) but doesn't diesel exhaust consist
>almost entirely of C2 (Carbon Dust), rather than CO (Carbon Monoxide) and
>CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) as emitted by conventional cars?  Granted, the carbon
>smoke LOOKS much worse (Heck, it's solid... isn't that a colloidal
>suspension or something?), but it all falls to the ground eventually
>(There goes the colloidal suspension theory) and ends up buried, where it
>eventually gets broken up and used in some other way (Perhaps mixing with
>enough O2 and H2 to make sugar and feed a tree, or something).  CO and
>CO2, however: CO2 is the "Greenhouse Gas", and CO is the Destroyer of
>Ozone (3CO + O3 --> 3CO2)
>
>(As a further aside, (And to plagarize Yogi Berra), 90% of [this] is half
>mental.)
>
>> One truck can pollute as much as 1000 cars.
>
>Apples & Oranges & Arbitrary Numbers
>						Dabe
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Leonard Evens      len@math.nwu.edu      708-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208