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Description: Celebrate Earth Day with our friends at PBS: bit.ly/3elpV1w​ Head over to Eons to find out more about how they're celebrating Earth Day, and tell them Reactions sent you! youtu.be/P-YLTbm2GNQ Catalytic converter theft is on the rise, and that’s partly because of their chemistry. You might also like: How Did Climate Change Help Turn the Sky Orange?: youtu.be/foeLC08-nrk Space Mirrors and Other Weird Ways to Fight Climate Change youtube.com/watch?v=9agoVDFJs8A The Chemical Origins of Life: youtu.be/f44OWlsLeT0 Testing the Best Bomb Detectors: youtu.be/TRwqOFHOjac How Do Lithium-Ion Batteries Work?: youtu.be/zUlbHMDCosI Credits: Executive Producers: George Zaidan Hilary Hudson Producers: Andrew Sobey Elaine Seward Writer/Host: Sam Jones, PhD Scientific consultants: Deborah Aruguete, PhD Leila Duman, PhD Brianne Raccor, PhD Luis Ricardez Sandoval, PhD Sources: History of Reducing Air Pollution from Transportation in the United States epa.gov/transportation-air-pollution-and-climate-change/accomplishments-and-success-air-pollution-transportation How smog affects health epa.ohio.gov/dapc/echeck/whyecheck/healthef Current scenario of CNG vehicular pollution and their possible abatement technologies: an overview link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11356-020-10361-7 Libre texts: Catalytic converters chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Physical_and_Theoretical_Chemistry_Textbook_Maps/Supplemental_Modules_(Physical_and_Theoretical_Chemistry)/Kinetics/07%3A_Case_Studies-_Kinetics/7.01%3A_Catalytic_Converters Platinum Group Metal Recovery from Spent Catalytic Converters Using XRF thermofisher.com/blog/metals/platinum-group-metal-recovery-from-spent-catalytic-converters-using-xrf Washington University catalytic converters lab tutorial chemistry.wustl.edu/~edudev/LabTutorials/CourseTutorials/Tutorials/AirQuality/CatalyticConverter.htm BBC Bitesize bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zqd2mp3/revision/6 Thieves Nationwide Are Slithering Under Cars, Swiping Catalytic Converters nytimes.com/2021/02/09/climate/catalytic-converter-theft.html As precious metals prices soar, Minnesota becomes hot spot for catalytic converter thefts mprnews.org/story/2021/03/16/as-precious-metals-prices-soar-minnesota-becomes-a-hotspot-for-catalytic-converter-thefts Hydrogen peroxide reduction on single platinum nanoparticles pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2020/sc/d0sc00379d Effects of Platinum Electrode on Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Hydrogen Peroxide Formation in Aqueous Phase Pulsed Corona Electrical Discharge pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ie0511480 Electrochemical oxidation of hydrogen peroxide at platinum electrodes. Part 1. An adsorption-controlled mechanism sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013468697001254 A precious metal that costs 15 times the price of gold is driving a surge in thefts of catalytic converters washingtonpost.com/world/africa/catalytic-converter-theft-south-africa-rhodium/2021/03/03/dc288192-777d-11eb-9489-8f7dacd51e75_story.html Produced by the American Chemical Society. Join the American Chemical Society! bit.ly/Join_acsmembership