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From: trough@ihuxa.UUCP (Chris Scussel)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Catalytic converters increase sulfur emissions?
Message-ID: <355@ihuxa.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Feb-84 15:15:52 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  2 15:15:52 1984
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Several recent net articles have claimed that catalytic converters increase
sulfur compound emissions from autos. What happened to the sulfur before
the converters? Do the converters catalyze the production of "worse" sulfur
compounds? If we're talking about acid rain, then it would seem that
sulfuric/ous oxides are important, and the "ous" doesn't need a catalyst
to change to "ic". What gives?