{"id":3871,"date":"2023-01-29T05:18:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T23:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3871"},"modified":"2025-03-26T19:56:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T14:26:04","slug":"what-is-nitrate-radical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-nitrate-radical\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Nitrate Radical?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Nitrate radicals:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Nitrate radical is an <strong>oxide of nitrogen<\/strong> that consists of three oxygen atoms bound to a <strong>nitrogen atom<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>These radicals could increase the amount of unhealthy ozone and PM2.5 fine particulate matter in the atmosphere.<\/li>\n<li>Nitrate radicals will <strong>oxidise gas pollutants<\/strong> such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs).<\/li>\n<li>These VOCs will then generate ozone and secondary organic aerosol, both deteriorates air quality.<\/li>\n<li>The Ozone is an air pollutant that affects human health and crop yield.<\/li>\n<li>The synthesis of nitrate radicals rises at night in some regions of India, particularly in northern India.<\/li>\n<li>Reducing the emissions of VOCs could reduce this night-time oxidation in India and China.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a free radical in chemistry?<\/h3>\n<p>In chemistry, a radical, also known as a free radical, is an atom, molecule, or ion that has at least one unpaired valence electron.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/nitrate-radical-production-pollution-india-china-8406729\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Nitrate radicals\u2019 are likely making air pollution worse in China, India<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nitrate radical is an oxide of nitrogen that consists of three oxygen atoms bound to a nitrogen atom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}