Notice when a vehicle drives by nowadays, that it is so much quieter than those
loud oldies that pour out the blue smoke. Ever wonder just what is underneath a vehicle
that makes the new ones so much cleaner. It is called a catalytic converter. The main
function of a catalytic converter is to decrease pollution emitted from a vehicles exhaust.
The concept behind this is to add a catalyst and force a reaction between the automobile's
exhaust and oxygen in the converter. To see just how this happens let's look inside of a
catalytic converter.
A catalytic converter is made up mainly of a…
