Synopsis
A demonstration of the dangerous things that are in the air we breath.
- Programme: Bang Goes the Theory
- Series: 7
- Episode: 8
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 2013
- Geography | Energy and Resources | Non-renewable and renewable energy | Non-renewable energy: fossil fuels
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