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EXHAUST EMISSIONS

  Related Terms
• Carbon Dioxide
• Carbon Monoxide
• Hydrocarbon
• Oxides of Nitrogen
 
 
Toxic gases created when an engine burns gasoline, emitted in the form of unburned hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and oxides of nitrogen.

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