Was a coal miner's lung cancer triggered by coal dust or cigarette smoke? Which is more to blame for a city's poor air quality: diesel buses in the streets or gas-fired turbines at a nearby electric power plant? And how should government target air-pollution-control efforts to best protect human health? The answers to all these questions, John Vander Sande believes, lie in the structure of individual particles of soot.

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