exhaust fumes

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Catalytic converters turn toxic gases into water vapor and carbon dioxide, making car exhaust fumes less environmentally damaging.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

"Why limit yourself? Why breathe in the exhaust fumes? Why be toxic? Come over here where the life and light and air and sound is."

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2025

An earlier experiment by Kaufman's lab found that exposure to diesel exhaust fumes increased blood pressure in a controlled environment.

From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2023

The capital's more than 10 million vehicles, more than in any of India's other cities, compound the problem with their exhaust fumes.

From Reuters • Oct. 30, 2023

The roar of wheels turning into the station, the stench of exhaust fumes, the sudden bustles of people unloading told me it was time to go.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin