regionally and even globally. Rain is one of the essential ingredients for human life. Although rain is naturally acidic, it is being increasingly acidified by pollution from homes, factories, power stations and cars. The term used to describe the problem is "acid rain". Acid rain has become a major environmental concern for several decades, it has broad economic, social and medical implications and has been called unseen plague of industrial age. The major components of acid rain is sulphur dioxide, sulphur
to plants by acid rain. Acid rain is any form of precipitation, such as fog, rain, or snow, with acidic components. (What is Acid Rain?, n.d.) The effects of acid rain on the environment are important to understand because it affects plant life, animals, and waterways. Additionally, people can be harmed by the pollutants that cause acid rain. It is important for scientists to perform this experiment so that they can better understand the effects of acid rain, how to prevent acid rain, and how to
planet, acid rain is a main factor to be considered and must be controlled before the damage worsens. In order to understand what acid rain is, we must first understand the term “acidity”. Acidic is a way to describe chemical compounds and it is measured on the pH scale, a logarithmic measure of the concentration of hydrogen ions (H+) in precipitation (1). This scale is numbered 0 to 14, where substances with values below 7 are considered acidic and the ones above 7 are basic. Pure rain has a pH
Sustaniable Development and Environmental Management – CSC Fall 2014 Instructor: Dr. Rostern Tembo Student: Melanie Rivers What is Acid Rain The term Acid Rain describes any form of precipitation, including snow and smog, with high levels of nitric and sulfuric acids. This can come from a number of sources including; the burning of fossil fuels such as coal in factories, automobiles, ash from erupting volcanoes and even rotting vegetation. The release of the gases, nitrogen oxides (NOx) and sulfur
Acid Rain is basically rain that has been made acidic by Sulfur DiOxide ( SO2 ) and other pollutants. Acid rain is formed by the release of ( SO2 ) and ( NO2 ) into the atmosphere. Then the chemicals are absorbed into the rainwater and create acid rain. Acid rain , mostly comes from the chemicals emitted into the air by coal fired power plants. Now there is a big push for clean coal and these power plants have mostly accomplished that. The power plants have scrubbers, covered in limestone that
Environmental Issues A. Introduction Every day, the average person inhales about 20,000 liters of air. Every time we breathe, we risk inhaling dangerous chemicals that have found their way into the air. We as humans depend on the air around us to live, without it we would die. We rely on this as an essential source for living. Air pollution includes all contaminants found in the atmosphere. It is another major problem that is yet to be solved. These dangerous substances can be either in the
environment caused by photochemical smog, acid rain, and resultant degradation of ecosystems and bio-diversity. Ontario’s SO2 emissions are predominantly around 65 percent from industrial sources including non-ferrous smelting. The major environmental concerns associated with smelting are “energy consumption, releases of sulphur dioxide and particulate matter to air, and the generation of residues, such as slag and captured dust” (Environment Canada, 2006). In this paper, the policies and regulation that
The Sulfur Dioxide in Environment The sulfur dioxide was regarded as the acknowledged toxic gas, and is also one of main factors for acid rain. Due to its severe toxicity, the major pollution incidents have even happened in human beings’ history. During 1st December and 15th December 1930, the toxic gases including the sulfur dioxide caused great loss for Meuse Valley in Belgium. The toxic gases led to thousands of people in the industrial zone of Meuse Valley were catched with respiratory diseases
Air Pollution Generally any substance that people introduce into the atmosphere has damaging effects on living things and the environment. Human activities have been highlighted as the major causes of air pollution, especially in the cities. For children with asthma in California, there is no place worse than Imperial County. They are far more likely than children in any other county to end up in the emergency room or hospitalized. Kids go the ER for asthma at a rate three times higher than the
Joe Science “Auto Grader, Grade: 94 A”-paper rater Causes, Problems, and Cures for Air Pollution When people think of air pollution, they most immediately picture heavy smog drifting over cities and industrial plants. This is the first and most evident form of air pollution. To better understand the subject, we need to define the term air pollution. Air pollution is the presence in or introduced into the air of a substance which has harmful or poisonous effects. These substances linger and cause