Santo Domingo air

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No, this is not news of a new airline. An article in Listin Diario quotes a study carried out by the Technological Institute of Santo Domingo (INTEC) and foreign researchers that showed the level of pollutants in Santo Domingo's air. According to the study, some of the substances identified were vanadium, magnesium, manganese, chlorine, sodium and aluminum. Researchers from the International Atomic Energy Agency were assisted by experts from Argentina, Chile, Venezuela and other countries. The study recommends that the Ministry of Public Health and the Ministry of the Environment should insist on scrubbers, filters and electrostatic precipitators to rid the air of these metal particles. Intec spokesperson Jose Contreras told Listin reporter Adriana Peguero that the presence of vanadium, particularly in the area around Haina, is the result of the intense traffic and the large amount of thermoelectric installations in the area. Vanadium is known to cause respiratory illnesses.

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