Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Acid Rain


Acid rain is rain or any other form of perticipation that is unusually acidic. It has harmful effects on plants, aquatic animals, and infastructure. Acid rain is mostly caused by human emissions of sulfur and nitrogen compounds which react in the atmosphere to produce acids. The issues are burning of coal ,pollution,rain, sleet, snow, fog, and dry particles carrying nitrogen oxide and sulfur oxide. There are lots of consequences like damaged buildings , statues damanged lakes and ponds-plants, amphibians, fish and insects dyin. The solutions for all those problems may be burning less coal use low-sulfur coal and use scrubbers(remove most sulfur oxides in air).

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