acid rain in English

noun
1
rainfall made sufficiently acidic by atmospheric pollution that it causes environmental harm, typically to forests and lakes. The main cause is the industrial burning of coal and other fossil fuels, the waste gases from which contain sulfur and nitrogen oxides, which combine with atmospheric water to form acids.
Power generated from fossil fuels causes smog, mercury pollution, acid rain and global warming.

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1. Acid rain.

2. Environmental Protection > Pollution / Acid Rain > Yukon Pollution / Acid Rain

3. Environmental Protection > Pollution / Acid Rain > Nunavut Pollution / Acid Rain

4. No acid rain.

5. Environmental Protection > Pollution / Acid Rain > Nova Scotia Pollution / Acid Rain

6. Acid Rain Implement Canada Wide Acid Rain Strategy and conduct ecosystem Monitoring.

7. Environmental Protection > Pollution / Acid Rain > British Columbia Pollution / Acid Rain

8. Acid Rain in Japan

9. No doubt , acid rain !

10. NORWAY’S KILLER [ACID] RAIN

11. Recovering From Acid Rain

12. Acid Rain Acid deposition is a general term that includes more than simply acid rain.

13. - atmospheric pollution and acid rain;

14. Air pollution and acid rain.

15. The Role of Acid Rain

16. Acid Rain —A Worrisome Threat

17. The reason being acid rain .

18. Acid Rain - Rain is called "Acid Rain" only if it has more Acid than normal

19. Acid rain is destroying our forests.

20. Sulphur goes on to produce acid rain.

21. Global warming, acid rain, the national debt

22. Protecting the Environment from Acid Rain 2.

23. AETG, Towards A National Acid Rain Strategy.

24. The greenhouses keep out the acid rain.

25. The acid rain is threatening world environment.

26. 2001."Where is acid rain a problem?"

27. You do know that it's acid rain

28. Acid Rain and Counteracting its Detrimental Effects

29. Acid rain destroys trees and corrodes buildings.

30. (See also Acid Rain; Climate; Clouds; Floods; Weather)

31. Cars cause pollution, both smog and acid rain.

32. Why are environmentalists so concerned about acid rain ?

33. Let me give you another example: acid rain.

34. Key words: lake acidification, periphyton, microcosms, acid rain

35. I read an article about acid rain yesterday.

36. A peculiarity of acid rain is that while the causative agents are emitted at one place , the acid rain falls at another .

37. • User Guide Proactive Disclosure Proactive Disclosure Acid Rain Acid rain is precipitation that contains an abnormally high concentration of sulfuric and nitric acids.

38. Acid rain has caused severe erosion on the hillside.

39. NOX also contributes to the formation of acid rain.

40. Precipitation washes this solution to earth as acid rain.

41. Acid rain and radioactive clouds have damaged large areas.

42. Acid rain has a devastating effect on the forest.

43. Key words: acid rain, desulphurization, modelling, neural networks, pollution.

44. * NOx is one of the substances in acid rain.

45. Actually, groundwater moderates the effects of acid rain. Glaciers 51.

46. Acid rain, global warming and garbage reduction are other examples.

47. ◦ Recovery of aquatic ecosystems from the impacts of acid rain

48. Besides, in the soil “acid rain” can liberate poisonous metals.

49. The problem of acid rain started in the early 1950s .

50. Acid rain (e.g. damage to fish populations and forest soils)