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Mazda Motors Corporation, a name derived from Ahura Mazda, the highest Zoroastrian God of reason who granted wisdom and united man, nature and the other gods began as a small cork manufacturing company in 1920s. The first production of vehicles later came in the sixties in by the name Mazda R360 Coupe two-door passenger vehicle. It was followed by other models such as the Mazda Carol and Mazda Cosmo Sports 110S to name a few.

By this time, as pollution became very dominant in majors cities not in America alone but also to the rest of the world, environmental concerns started to become the main priory. The emission standards were set to control the release of harmful gases coming from the vehicles. When the Clean Air Act of 1970 was passed in the United States, vehicles were prohibited to travel unless they pass the law. The first remedy was to alter emission by modifying the engine. Then the most significant device that changed the course of automotive history was invented: the catalytic converter.

Catalytic converter is usually seen underneath the car and is commonly located between the engine of the vehicle and its muffler. It is consists of clay sheets separating the different chambers of a catalytic converter. These clay sheets are consist of numerous fine holes that are lined with a thin metal oxide and small particles of platinum and rhodium. Gasses emitted from engine combustion like nitrogen gas, carbon dioxide, water vapor, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and nitrogen oxide then pass through the catalytic converter and go to process called oxidation of carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide, reduction of nitrogen oxides to nitrogen, and oxidation of hydrocarbons or unburnt fuel to carbon dioxide and water thus effectively reducing the harmful gases when it reaches the air.

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