Acid Rain
Acid rain can be defined as rain that has a pH less than 5.6, formed primarily through the chemical transformation of sulfur and nitrogen compounds emitted by anthropogenic sources. In addit...
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What Is Acid Rain?
Acid rain is the common name for acidic deposits that fall to Earth from the atmosphere. The term was coined in 1872 by English chemist Robert Angus Smith to describe the ...
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Acid Rain
Acid rain is rain with a pH (a logarithmic measurement of acidity or alkalinity) of less than 5.7. Acid rain usually results from elevated levels of nitric and sulfuric acids in air pollutio...
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Acid Rain
Acid rain, or acidic precipitation, first attracted scientific attention in the mid 1950s in Scandinavia, with studies focused on acidity and surface waters. Concern in the United States, Eu...
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Acid Rain
Acid rain is the collective name given to any rain containing acidic impurities. These impurities are generally the product of industrial pollution.
Normal, unpolluted rain has a pH of 5.6 d...
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Acid Rain
Acid rain occurs when polluting gasses become trapped in clouds that drift for hundreds, even thousands, of miles and are finally released as acidic precipitation. Trees, lakes, animals, and...
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Acid Deposition
The basic mechanisms of acid deposition. (Illustration by Wadsworth Inc. Reproduced by permission.)
Acid precipitation from the atmosphere, whether in the form of dryfall (finel...
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Acid Rain
Acid rain is the term used in the popular press that is equivalent to acidic deposition as used in the scientific literature. Acid deposition results from the deposition of airborne acidic p...
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Acid Rain
"Acid rain" is a popular term that can include all forms of precipitation (as well as fog and cloudwater) that is more acidic than expected from natural causes. Measurement of ...
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Acid Rain
Acid rain is any form of atmospherically deposited acidic substance containing strong mineral acids of anthropogenic origin. It was reportedly first described in England by Robert Angus Smit...
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WHEN SOMETHING IS perfect, people say that it is "right as rain." For instance, when someone is not feeling well, he or she might be told to go to bed early, to get plenty of sleep, and to expect to f...
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BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE
A seed is formed from the ovule of a flower as a result of fertilisation, and is then dispersed from the parent plant. If the seed lands in a suitable place, it will germinate. G...
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Acid rain is a global issue. This process is harmful for all living things living over the earth's surface. It can kill all life on earth if we didn't do something about it. In Syria the people are pr...
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Power Stations and Acid Rain
Acid Rain is an extensive term used to describe the way acid falls out of the atmosphere. In a much more precise term, it is ¡§Acid Deposition¡¨, whic...
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