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Acid Rain

Published on Dec 14, 2015

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KILLING KILLER RAIN

By NaThanielle Hughes

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Acid rain is a dangerous precipitation that damages both nature and man made objects.

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Acid rain is created when chemicals from factories, industries, and other things, floats into the air and mixes with the water in the atmosphere.

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pH scale

The pH scale measures how acidic a substance is. It ranges from 0-14, 7 being neutral. Anything less than 7 is acidic, while anything greater than 7 is basic. Each pH value lower than 7 is 10 times as acidic as the next value up.

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Volcanoes and decaying plants also release the chemicals that are most responsible for acid rain.

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Factories and industries that release sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide play the biggest role in making acid rain, though.

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Adirondack, New York is known for its beauty as it's used in any books, poems and paintings. But because it's soil is sensitive, unlike the limestone in the main parts of the state, it has been heavily damaged by acid rain. But with a lot of help, it's coming around for the better.

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You can see the affects of acid rain on human structures. You can see the discoloration of statues, decaying and peeling of the outer walls of buildings, and other signs as well.

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Some people will play the signs of acid rain off as something either getting old or being rundown. So they'll use these chances to tear them down to build something "new and better."

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I believe that instead of using resources that emit the chemicals responsible for acid rain, we could switch completely to more natural resources, that way the only places the chemicals could be coming from would be from nature itself, but in low amounts.

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Other ideas to reduce acid rain are to use coal containing less sulfur, washing it, or using devices that remove sulfur dioxide from the gases that leave the smokestacks, called "scrubbers".

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Finally, another idea is to restore acidic lakes and rivers by putting limestone in it to cancel out the acid. This can also help the native fish in the area to finally repopulate.

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Acid Rain

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

KILLING KILLER RAIN

Acid rain is a dangerous precipitation that damages both nature and man made objects.

Acid rain is created when chemicals from factories, industries, and other things, floats into the air and mixes with the water in the atmosphere.

As it comes down as acid rain, it damages plant and animal life.

It acidifies bodies of water.

And it decays human structures.

Acid rain causes billions of dollars of damage to human health.

pH scaleThe pH scale measures how acidic a substance is. It ranges from 0-14, 7 being neutral. Anything less than 7 is acidic, while anything greater than 7 is basic. Each pH value lower than 7 is 10 times as acidic as the next value up.

Volcanoes and decaying plants also release the chemicals that are most responsible for acid rain.

Factories and industries that release sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide play the biggest role in making acid rain, though.

Adirondack, New York is known for its beauty as it's used in any books, poems and paintings. But because it's soil is sensitive, unlike the limestone in the main parts of the state, it has been heavily damaged by acid rain. But with a lot of help, it's coming around for the better.

You can see the affects of acid rain on human structures. You can see the discoloration of statues, decaying and peeling of the outer walls of buildings, and other signs as well.

Some people will play the signs of acid rain off as something either getting old or being rundown. So they'll use these chances to tear them down to build something "new and better."

I believe that instead of using resources that emit the chemicals responsible for acid rain, we could switch completely to more natural resources, that way the only places the chemicals could be coming from would be from nature itself, but in low amounts.

Other ideas to reduce acid rain are to use coal containing less sulfur, washing it, or using devices that remove sulfur dioxide from the gases that leave the smokestacks, called "scrubbers".

Finally, another idea is to restore acidic lakes and rivers by putting limestone in it to cancel out the acid. This can also help the native fish in the area to finally repopulate.

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pH scale

The pH scale measures how acidic a substance is. It ranges from 0-14, 7 being neutral. Anything less than 7 is acidic, while anything greater than 7 is basic. Each pH value lower than 7 is 10 times as acidic as the next value up.