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What are quantitative pollutants ?

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Quantitative Pollutants. These are those substances which are normally occuring in the environment and acquire the status of pollutant when their concentration gets increased due to unmindful activities of man, beyond a threshold level e.g.,`CO, CO_2` nitrogen oxides.
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