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regional air pollution

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Pollutants that have been emitted from all sources in a region and have had time to mix, diffuse from their peak concentration, and undergo physical, chemical, and photochemical reactions.
The size of a region is indeterminate, but usually incorporates one or more cities, and is on the order of 100 to 10 000 km².

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