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‘800% Jump In PM2.5 Pollution, Heavy Metal Aerosols In Air’: Here’s What You Breathe On Diwali Night

— News18 News18

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While stubble burning causes a portion of the air pollution, short-term spikes in toxic heavy metals like potassium, aluminium, barium and strontium come from firecrackers