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This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Christopher in Taliatta.

Air pollution outside is easy to spot, hanging over the city or sputtering from a tailpipe.

But there's a lot of indoor air pollution, too, even if it's not as obvious.

It's caused by volatile organic compounds, or VOCs.

They can come from building materials like paints, carpets, and adhesives, vinyl floors,

varnishes, solvents, etc.

Vadud Niri, an analytical chemist at the State University of New York, Oswego.

And also they can come from home and personal care products,

like cleaning chemicals, air fresheners, cosmetics.

And that cosmetics part is what caught Neary's attention.

One day when I went to a nail salon with my wife,

I noticed the smell of specifically acetone in there.

And since I was doing air analysis in that time, I thought maybe we can do something about this.

Acetone can irritate your eyes, skin, nose and throat, and at high concentrations can cause nausea,

headaches, or other nervous system problems.

Neary figured that one way to get rid of acetone might be with houseplants.

So we reviewed decades of literature in the field of plants as environmental cleanup agents,

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