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Match the following:
Pollutants Effects
(a) Chloro fluoro carbon (i) BOD level of water increases
(b) Methane in air (ii) Acid rain
(c) Synthetic detergents in water (iii) Global warming
(d) Nitrogen oxides in air (iv) Depletion of ozone layer

 

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