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A coal-burning electric generating plant emits 1.5 kg/min of SO2 from a stack with an effective height of 65m. on a thinly overcast evening, with a wind speed of 5.0 m/s, what will be the ground level concentration of SO2 500m directly downwind from the stack?
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