Acid Rain: Researchers Addressing Its Lingering Effects
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Acid rain and its ecological consequences.
Acidification of rain-water is identified as one of the most serious environmental problems of transboundary nature. Acid rain is mainly a mixture of sulphuric and nitric acids depending upon the relative quantities of oxides of sulphur and nitrogen emissions. Due to the interaction of these acids with other constituents of the atmosphere, protons are released causing increase in the soil acidi...
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عنوان ژورنال: BioScience
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0006-3568,1525-3244
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biy113