Pollution acid rain

Mcllanby, K. (ed.), "Air Pollution, Acid Rain, and the Environment," Elsevder Science Publishers, Essex, England, 1988. 

ACID RAIN. Acid rain can be simply described as rain that is more acidic than normal. Acid ram is a complicated problem, Caused by air pollution, acid rain s spread and damage involve weather, chemistry, soil, and the life cycles of plants and animals on the land and in the water. 

Not surprisingly, it s the layer nearest the earth s surface—the troposphere—that is the most easily disturbed by human activities and has the greatest effect on the earth s surface conditions. Among those effects, air pollution, acid rain, and the greenhouse effect are particularly important. 

There has been considerable effort to solve and diminish ecological and environmental problems such as air pollution, acid rain, soil pollution, and etc [1]. It has been well known that the acidic gases, such as, SO2 and NO, are major components of air pollution. Carbons have been used as not only a reducing agent itself but also catalyst support for the purpose of removing pollution sources such as NO, SO, and etc [2-4]. 

Acid deposition, the deposition of acidic substances from the atmosphere onto Earth s surface, is another phenomenon associated with atmospheric pollution. Acid rain refers to the low pH of precipitation that has been observed in... 

Gao, S., K. Sakamoto, D. Zhao, D. Zhang, X. Dong, S. Hatakeyama Studies on atmospheric pollution, acid rain and emission control for their precursors in Chongqing, China, Water, Air, and Soil Pollut., 130 (2001) 247-252. 

This standard considers the stability of plastics when they are exposed outdoors. The relative durability of plastics in outdoor use can be very different depending on the location of the exposure because of the differences in UV radiation, wetness, temperature, pollutants (acid rains, for example), and many other factors. Hence, exposure in several locations with different climates that represent a broad range of anticipated service conditions are recommended by this ASTM. Still, because of year-to-year climatological variations, resnlts of exposure in 1 year cannot be used to predict the absolute rate at which a material degrades. Therefore, several years of repeated exposure to get an average test result for a given location is recommended. 

Whole towns are evacuated because of chemical pollution. Acid rain, a resuH of manufacturing for so many people here and for export, costs over two billion dollars a year in the U.S. alone in erosion of our buildings and monuments. It also destroys all life in many of our lakes and streams and even denudes our forests and threatens our croplands. Added to all this, the weather is increasingly turning on us, destroying homes and businesses as well as croplands. 

Hydrocarbons are the primary molecules that our society uses for fuel. Natural gas, gasoline, and oil are all mixtures of hydrocarbons with progressively longer carbon chains in going from gas to oil. All of these fuels, called fossil fuels, are of limited supply and will eventually need to be replaced by other energy sources. Their use also causes environmental problems such as air pollution, acid rain, and global warming (6.3). 

A specially designed barge applies a slurry of finely ground limestone (CaCOs) to a lake to neutralize its acidity,caused by acid-rain pollution.Acid rain results from the burning of sulfur-containing materials (coal and sulfide ores) and from nitrogen oxide pollution from automobiles. 

The other major problems associated with fossil fuel use stem from the products of combustion. The chemical equations shown for fossil fuel combustion all produce cartxM dioxide and water. However, these equations represent the reactions under ideal conditions and do not account for impurities in the fuel, side reactions, and incomplete combustion. When these are taken into account, we can identify three major awiron-mental problems associated with the emissitxis of fossil fuel combustion air pollution, acid rain, and global climate change. We discussed acid rain in Chjpter 3 (see Chemistry in the Environment Acid Rain in Section 3.6). Here we will address air pollution and global climate change, which we first touched on in Section 4.1. 

In addition to their limited supply, the products of the combustion of fossil fuels—directly or indirectly formed—contribute to environmental problems including air pollution, acid rain, and global climate change, which involves an increase in Earth s average temperature caused by CO2 emission. 

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