Acid rain: Canada must act alone
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Acid Rain
Pure water has a pH of 7.0 (neutral); however, natural, unpolluted rainwater actually has a pH of about 5.6 (acidic).[Recall from Experiment 1 that pH is a measure of the hydrogen ion (H+) concentration.] The acidity of rainwater comes from the natural presence of three substances (CO2, NO, and SO2) found in the troposphere (the lowest layer of the atmosphere). As is seen in Table I, carbon dio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1984
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/307679a0