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without the high temperature that you'd get in an engine or in an optimized environment and you don't have any catalytic systems in there, no scrubbers, et cetera. All these petrochemicals, they undergo incomplete combustion, these hydrocarbons, and you get low temperature pyrolysis, right? And that basically converts the complex hydrocarbons that you have, usually crude oil and stuff, into this highly toxic reactive atmospheric plume. That's why the smoke is so dark and thick and black. And depending on the amount of stuff burning and the weather conditions of the day, some of these plumes can actually become pyrocumulus clouds. So you'll actually get rain out of them and it'll be a terrible black oily rain that comes down. And this stuff can be really, really toxic. So one of the things that you get with all this burning outside of gaseous carbon dioxide and water.