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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

 would it work to build a woodsmoke scrubber for home heating use

something like a device that introduces air into the smokestream before 
exiting the chimney,
contains all gases and particulate matter and pumps it into a vat of water, 
like a hookah
then into successive identical vats untill all components of smoke are 
dissolved in water.
The vats are purged periodically with all liquids introduced into a 
remediation system;
various filtration materials and components could be involved at various 
stages of the purification process.

anyone with chemistry and environmental science background have any thoughts 
on this?

from a previous post it seems that the worst pollutants in wood smoke are 
various carcinogens and NOx
(is this nitric oxide?)

LL