How is air quality measured?

From an article found on helium.com:

Air quality is simply the concentration of pollutants and particles in the atmosphere and there are a variety of ways to measure it.  Many people are familiar with the air quality indexes produced by countries to indicate when air pollution might be a problem for vulnerable groups.

In the United States the air quality index is production by the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) and in Canada by Meteorological Service of Canada. (MSC)  Like most other countries they only measure five major pollutants: ground-level ozone, particulates, sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide.

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One Response to How is air quality measured?

  1. Priscilla says:

    Would you like to tell me how much air goes inside the Deluxe device per minute . is known that the 90 meters 2 of area goes inside in 30 minutes but in how much time this area can we say is ready is 100% pure., could be in 24 hours …please let me know cause this is very important to know how much time i have to have on this device in order to get 100% pure air. Thanks