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acid rain |
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acid rain rain which contains materials, sulfates and oxidation products of nitrogen and sulfur particularly, produced by combustion of coal and oil in industrial processes and by motor vehicles; lowers the pH of water bodies; see acid waters; credited with local decline of fish culture. |
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These chemicals react with moisture in the atmosphere to make sulfuric and nitric acid, which then falls back to the Earth as precipitation--acid rain, acid snow, even acid fog. But atmospheric chemists have also been studying similar phenomena--among them acid fog, acid snow and, most recently, acid dew. |
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