Acid Rain by Rebekah Yuhayco

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Acid rain is substance which has a pH level of 3 - 5.5; caused by pollution of SO2 and NOx gases.

When fossil fuels are burned at an energy plant, harmful gases are produced as a by-product of combustion. When theses polluting particles are in the atmosphere, they join up with water and make it very acidic.

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Acid rain damages forests by leaching vital soil nutrients and mobilizing toxic aluminum, leading to plant death

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It can eventually erode metal and stone built buildings

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Acid Rain comes from human made pollution like fossil fuel gasses or factory fuels because they produce chemicals like sulfuric dioxide and nitrogen into the atmosphere

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Human pollution

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sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides are released into the air

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Leeches out essential nutrients from trees

Acid Rain can be 10x more acidic than normal rain

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Acid rain is made from atmospheric pollution that is made from coal or naturaul gas that contains things like SO2 and N gasses.

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Aquatic Life

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Can destroy ecosystems in lakes and rivers by lowering the pH of the water, hence increasing the acidity of the water.

This can kill aquatic life and lowering the ability of eggs to hatch.

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Acid rain can leach aluminium from soil particles, the aluminium can then flow into bodies of water

Aluminium is toxic to fish

can corrode stone based structures such as buildings, statues and monuments

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These particles faall back down in the form of percipertation. These acid fall as gasses. The cuase for the rain being acididc is bruning fossel fuels aswell as powerplants aswell as naturaul proccess of volcanic eruptions.

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effects respiratory system in humans due to the harmful particles

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Acid rain is caused primarily by human activities that release sulfur dioxide (SO2cap S cap O sub 2𝑆𝑂2) and nitrogen oxides (NOxcap N cap O sub x𝑁𝑂𝑥) into the atmosphere. When these pollutants are carried by air currents, they react with water, oxygen, and other chemicals to form sulfuric and nitric acids. These acidic compounds then fall to the earth as either wet or dry deposition.

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In the atmosphere chemicals such as Nitrogen Oxides or Sulfur Dioxide interact with water. These chemicals can be due to short lived byproduct of volcanic eruption, lightning strikes, but mostly from fossil fuels that come from power plants, vehicles

Mountain Regions

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Trees and plants found in mountain areas acidic clouds and fog forms and can strip nutrients from the leaves which increases the chance of infections and damage to the plants

https://www3.epa.gov/acidrain/education/site_students/whyharmful.html#:~:text=Acid%20rain%20can%20be%20extremely,trees%20to%20take%20up%20water.