Water Acid Rain Diagram. Pin em art design. Acid rain is the term commonly used by scientists to describe rain that is abnormally acidic.
Rotting vegetation and erupting volcanoes release some chemicals that can cause acid rain but most acid rain is a product of human activities. However naturalunpolluted rainwater actually has a ph of about 56acidicrecall from experiment 1 that ph is a measure of thehydrogen ion h concentration the acidity ofrainwater comes from the natural presence of three substances co2no and so2 found in the troposphere the. Nitrogen oxides nox produced by combustion of fossil fuels and by industry.
Effects of acid rain cycle diagram.
Note that the primary pollutants are sulfur and nitrogen oxides put into the atmosphere and the secondary pollutants are the sulfuric and nitric acids that form acid rain. Since rain naturally has things dissolved in it it. It corrodes buildings monuments statues bridges fences and railings. Water is added to quicklime to form slaked lime.