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Concept information
Preferred term
air pollution
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Definition
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Any substance or energy form (heat, light, noise, etc.) which alters the state of the air from what would naturally occur. Especially associated with those altered states whose physical, chemical, biological, psychological or aesthetic impacts have been decreed to be undesirable by human value judgments.
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URI
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/5843
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