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Acid rain is one of the most dangerous and widespread phonomenon of pollution, sometimes called "the unseen plague". Technically, acid rain is rain that has a larger amount of acid in it than normal. A more precise name is acid deposition, which has two parts: wet and dry. Wet deposition refers to acidic rain, fog, and snow and dry deposition refers to acidic gases and particles.( Acid Rain. ...
Acid rain is a human-related phenomenon and caused by smoke and gas that are given off by factories and cars that run on fossil fuels such as coal, oil or nature gas. When these fuels are burned to produce energy, the sulfur and some of the nitrogen that are present in the fuel combines with oxygen and become sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide; These pollutants go into the atmosphere and become acid.
When acid rain falls down to the ground, it does great harm to the environment. Many living and non-living systems become harmed and damaged as a result of acid rain.
At the present time, the problem of acid rain in Europe and North America is no longer a local problem; it has become a wide spread environmental problem. The polluting substances which cause acid rain affect not only the areas near the pollutants country, but also move thousands of kilometers on high-altitude air currents. The effects of acid rain in have been recorded in parts of the United States, the late Federal Republic of Germany, Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Australia, Yugoslavia and elsewhere. ...
Acid Rain Chemistry
Distilled water, which contains no carbon dioxide (SO2) or nitrogen oxides ("NOx"), has a neutral pH of 7.
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