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One reason smokestacks are so tall is to help disperse and thereby dilute the pollutants from their exhaust.

Here, Grady demonstrates how a stack's height increases the plume's velocity.

This countertop demo shows how a buoyant plume can be pulled downward in the wake of a nearby building.

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