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Catalytic Converter Summary
630 words, approx. 2 pages Automotive developments late in the twentieth century often seem to pit government regulations against technology and the consumer's pocketbook. A case in point is the catalytic converter, but, surprisingly, technical advances have met increasingly...
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414 words, approx. 1 pages Catalytic converters are devices which employ a catalyst to facilitate a chemical reaction. (A catalyst is a substance that changes the rate of a chemical reaction, but whose own composition is unchanged by that reaction.) For air pollution control...
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364 words, approx. 1 pages The catalytic converter in an automobile is an expanded section of exhaust pipe occurring upstream of the muffler in which pollutants generated in the engine are converted to normal atmospheric gases. It is an essential element in the emissions control...
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 A catalytic converter (colloquially, "cat" or "catcon") is a device used to reduce the toxicity of emissions from an internal combustion engine. First widely introduced on series-production automobiles in the US market for the 1975 model year to comply...




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 The Boston Globe
Thieves go for catalytic converters
06/03/2007: 538 words, approx. 2 pages GLOBE SOUTH 1 / BRAINTREE Drivers are long used to hearing about car radios being ripped out and stolen. In recent years, thieves started targeting airbags, too, and even the super-bright xenon headlights. Now it's catalytic converters. According to police in Braintree,...
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 The Economist (US)
Waste not. (catalytic converters) (Science and Technology)
01/12/1991: 601 words, approx. 2 pages NUCLEAR clouds are notoriously devoid of silver linings. If a spokesman for the nuclear industry were to claim that nuclear waste can help to make a cleaner world, he would probably not be believed. In a small way, though, he would be right. One...
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Thieves targeting catalytic converters from cars, trucks
2/6/2007: 551 words, approx. 2 pages Thieves have long targeted car stereos, air bags, high-intensity headlights, even pocket change from the ashtrays. But now they are slithering under vehicles and cutting away the catalytic converters.The anti-pollution devices contain small amounts of platinum, rhodium and palladium, and the value of these precious...
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Thieves stealing pollution devices
2/6/2007: 551 words, approx. 2 pages Thieves have long targeted car stereos, air bags, high-intensity headlights, even pocket change from the ashtrays. But now they are slithering under vehicles and cutting away the catalytic converters.The anti-pollution devices contain small amounts of platinum, rhodium and palladium, and the value of these precious...


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