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What is the difference between smog and fog?

Fog is a collection of liquid water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth 's surface. While fog is a type of stratus cloud, the term "fog" is typically distinguished from the more generic term "cloud" in that fog is low-lying, and the moisture in the fog is often generated locally (such as from a nearby body of water, like a lake or the ocean, or from nearby moist ground or marshes). 

Smog (combination of smoke and fog)  is a collection of airborne solid and liquid particulates and gases emitted when a material undergoes combustion or pyrolysis, together with the quantity of air that is entrained or otherwise mixed into the mass

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smog is due to manmade pollutants in the atmosphere, where fog is water vapor collecting into the air at the surface of the earth.

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 Smog is a type of air pollution; the word "smog" is a combination of fog and smoke. Modern smog is a type of air pollution derived from vehicular emission from internal combustion engines and industrial fumes that react in the atmosphere with sunlight to form secondary pollutants that also combine with the primary emissions to form photochemical smog. Smog is also caused by large amounts of coal burning in an area caused by a mixture of smoke and sulfur dioxide.

 
Fog is a collection of water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth 's surface. While fog is a type of a cloud, the term "fog" is typically distinguished from the more generic term "cloud" in that fog is low-lying, and the moisture in the fog is often generated locally (such as from a nearby body of water, like a lake or the ocean, or from nearby moist ground or marshes).
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smog is made up by the combination of smoke and fog. It pollutes the environment. Whereas fog is thecollection of liquid water droplets or ice crystals in air or near the surface of the earth. 

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smog is the combination of smoke and fog which is quite hatmful to us and  when vapours present in the air gets condensed near the surface without any harmful smoke combined in it it is termed as fog.

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