What is the chief culprit of smog?

The chief culprit of smog has been smog weather since ancient times, and human activities or natural phenomena such as slash-and-burn and volcanic eruption may lead to smog weather. However, after mankind entered the era of fossil fuels, the smog weather really threatened the living environment and health of mankind. Rapid industrialization and urbanization lead to rapid energy consumption, high concentration of population and destruction of ecological environment, which have laid the groundwork for the formation of haze weather. It can be said that industrialization and urbanization are the chief culprits of smog.

Haze, as its name implies, is fog and haze. But there is a big difference between fog and haze. The aerosol system composed of dust, sulfuric acid, nitric acid and other particles in the air causes visual impairment, which is called smog. Haze is haze. Fog is an aerosol system consisting of a large number of tiny water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air near the ground.

Haze weather is a state of air pollution, and smog is a general term for all kinds of suspended particles in the atmosphere, especially PM2.5 (particles with aerodynamic equivalent diameter less than or equal to 2.5 microns) is considered as the "culprit" causing haze weather. With the deterioration of air quality, cloudy days are increasing and the harm is increasing. In many areas of our country, the smog weather phenomenon is combined with fog as an early warning and forecast of disastrous weather. Collectively referred to as "haze weather".