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Acid Rain

Acid "rain" is any form of precipitation (rain, snow, hail, or fog) that contains harmful amounts of nitrogen and sulfur oxides. The major human sources are from industry, transportation, and power plants. These industrial pollutants from the air increase the acidity of the precipitation and harm plants, buildings, and humans.

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sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, runoff, atmosphere, pH, precipitation, rainfall, air pollution, atmospheric pollution, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, acidic precipitation, industrial pollutants, acid deposition, power plants, transportation, anthropogenic emissions, pollution source, plant damage, materials damage, building damage, emissions trading, forest decline, Waldsterben, air quality

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FEATURED ORGANIZATION

The Swedish NGO Secretariat on Acid Rain is a joint venture between five Swedish environmental organizations with the chief purpose of promoting awareness of the problems associated with air pollution, and thus, in part as a result of public pressure, to bring about the required reduction in the emissions of air pollutants.

DID YOU KNOW...

...that acid rain is measured using a scale called "pH." The lower a substance's pH, the more acidic it is. Pure water has a pH of 7.0. However, normal rain is slightly acidic because carbon dioxide (CO2) dissolves into it forming weak carbonic acid, giving the resulting mixture a pH of approximately 5.6 at typical atmospheric concentrations of CO2. As of 2000, the most acidic rain falling in the U.S. has a pH of about 4.3. Source: US EPA Acid Rain Factsheet
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