small-particle pollution

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   air pollution caused by fine particles of soot (as from power plants or diesel engines)

   Broaderair pollution

Questions about small-particle pollution

What does small-particle pollution mean?

small-particle pollution means "air pollution caused by fine particles of soot (as from power plants or diesel engines)".

Is small-particle pollution a common word?

small-particle pollution is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.