Dust and acid rain Air pollution

With the intense industrial development in the middle of the nineteenth century, air pollution as a new atmospheric aspect became the object of interest of researchers more precisely, the impacts of air pollutant (forest decline, human health, cor- 

It is remarkable that the mixing of air (as it was still regarded as a uniform body) and water with pollutants (accurately referred to as foreign bodies in the old terminology) has been known since Aristotle. The role of precipitation in cleaning the environment is wonderfully described by John Evelyn, who wrote the first book on air pollution (Evelyn 1661 8ff.)  

Evelyns remarks volatile salts and their corrosive effects after distribution in the air may form the first evidence for gaseous (and, consequently, dissolved) HCl in the urban air (ibid., p. 28). His expression that the traveler. .. sooner smells than sees the city. .. (Evelyn 1661 19) gives us an idea of the level of air pollution. The terms smoake and clouds in Evelyn s booklet (only once does he use the term fog ) surely mean what we now call smog, an artificial expression coined by des Voeux in his paper Fog and Smoke for a meeting of the Public Health Congress in London in 1905. 

Town fog is mist made white by Nature and painted any tint from yellow to 

The generic term aerosol was first introduced into literature by the German meteorologist August Schmaufi (Schmauss 1920, Schmauss and Wigand 1929). 

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