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Temperature inversion in the atmosphere mainly causes:

ADust storm
BDispersion of air pollutants
CAccumulation of air pollutants ✓ Correct
DOzone depletion
Correct answer: (C) Accumulation of air pollutants
Explanation

Temperature inversion traps a layer of cool air near the ground and lets pollutants build up.

A warm layer sits above the cool air and acts like a lid stopping vertical mixing.

A dust storm is driven by strong surface winds, not by this stable trapping layer.

Dispersion of pollutants is exactly what an inversion prevents rather than causes.

Ozone depletion happens high in the stratosphere and is unrelated to surface inversions.

The deadly London smog of 1952 grew under just such a temperature inversion.

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