Sentences with phrase «form of acid rain»

The problem in the 1980s was that American power plants were sending up vast clouds of sulfur dioxide, which was falling back to earth in the form of acid rain, damaging lakes, forests and buildings across eastern Canada and the United States.

On Earth, atmospheric CO2 is absorbed by precipitation --- by rain — and forms a very weak solution of carbonic acid, a very mild form of acid rain.

EVEN NATURE»S Warnings inflicted on the world in the form of ACID RAIN and OZONE Depletion -LRB-(proven to be caused by Human / Industry dumping of Chemicals into the atmosphere)-RRB- have been ignored or ridiculed by the USUAL SUSPECTS.

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Founded in 1982 to fight against acid rain, AQLPA expanded its mandate in 1992 to fight against all forms of air pollution.

And all of that production means that China is bearing the burden of the pollution that can go along with the manufacture of such renewable energy for other countries — whether the acid rain — forming sulfur dioxide emitted from making the steel in a wind turbine's blade or the noxious chemicals left over after manufacturing specialized silicon, or glass, that can turn sunshine into electricity.

Such technology could cut acid rain — causing sulfur dioxide emissions by more than 90 percent, smog - forming nitrogen oxides by 75 percent, and — ultimately — capture more than 80 percent of the CO2 normally produced by combustion, storing it in nearby depleted oil fields by 2015.

That sulfur dioxide market, run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has reduced sulfur dioxide levels by 40 percent since 1992 by allowing companies to buy and sell the right to emit the acid - rain forming pollution from coal - burning plants, which has increased the acidity of lake waters throughout the region.

If a volcano ejects vast quantities of water which freezes in the upper atmosphere, some of this may combine with sulphur dioxide to form droplets of sulphuric acid that quickly rain back to Earth.

Concentrations of two other chemicals in the ice cores, vanillic acid (a chemical formed when conifer forests burn) and non — sea salt sulfur (a primary component in acid rain), helped distinguish between soot from natural sources and that from industrial pollution.

Sulfur dioxide is a major component of particulate pollution, can cause heart and lung problems, and forms acid rain.

Lowe hypothesizes that rain combined with atmospheric carbon dioxide to make carbonic acid, which weathered jutting mountains of newly formed continental crust.

A shared interest in geometric forms — in all of their attenuated, ribald permutations — pervades the show, as does a garrulous palette ranging from treacle to acid rain.

Acid rain: Also called acid precipitation or acid deposition, acid rain is precipitation containing harmful amounts of nitric and sulfuric acids formed primarily by sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides released into the atmosphere when fossil fuels are burAcid rain: Also called acid precipitation or acid deposition, acid rain is precipitation containing harmful amounts of nitric and sulfuric acids formed primarily by sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides released into the atmosphere when fossil fuels are buracid precipitation or acid deposition, acid rain is precipitation containing harmful amounts of nitric and sulfuric acids formed primarily by sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides released into the atmosphere when fossil fuels are buracid deposition, acid rain is precipitation containing harmful amounts of nitric and sulfuric acids formed primarily by sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides released into the atmosphere when fossil fuels are buracid rain is precipitation containing harmful amounts of nitric and sulfuric acids formed primarily by sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides released into the atmosphere when fossil fuels are burned.

Water has a residence time of 8 - 10 days in the atmosphere, so whenever it rains carbon dioxide is being washed out of the atmosphere, because, water (vapour, liquid, solid) in the atmosphere attracts all carbon dioxide in the vicinity — together forming carbonic acid which gives all natural unpolluted rain its pH of around 5.6 - 8.

At any rate, when «normal» rain containing natural carbonic acid falls upon silicon - containing sedimentary rocks formed over eons from the shells of tiny marine creatures — radiolarians, diatoms and some sponges — this «siliceous» rock combines with the carbonic acid to form ions of bicarbonate.

The regulations being crafted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), expected to go into force next April and November 2011 in accordance with the Clean Air Act, are part of a long ratcheting back of mercury, acid rain, and smog - forming emissions from utility smokestacks.

It is however one of the main contributors to acid rain and sulphur dioxide dissolves in rain water to form sulphurous acid.

That's how we get rain which has a pH of 5.6 - 8 because of the attraction of carbon dioxide and water in the atmosphere — forming carbonic acid.

That sulfur dioxide market, run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has reduced sulfur dioxide levels by 40 percent since 1992 by allowing companies to buy and sell the right to emit the acid - rain forming pollution from coal - burning plants, which has increased the acidity of lake waters throughout the region.

The granulated form is made for lawns so when it rains, the lime releases gradually over time, making the pH of the soil less acid.