Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!ihuxa!trough 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 Article-I.D.: ihuxa.355 Posted: Thu Feb 2 15:15:52 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 01:33:51 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 8 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?