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• Acid rain — is rain or any other form of precipitation that is unusually acidic. It has harmful effects on plants, aquatic animals, and infastructure. Acid rain is mostly caused by human emissions of sulfur and nitrogen compounds which react in the… …   Wikipedia

• Acid neutralizing capacity — or ANC in short is a measure for the overall buffering capacity against acidification for a solution, e.g. surface water or soil water.ANC is defined as the difference between cations of strong bases and anions of strong acids (see below), or… …   Wikipedia

• acid rain — noun uncount rain containing a high level of acid that can damage the environment. It is caused by pollution in the air …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• pollution — /peuh looh sheuhn/, n. 1. the act of polluting or the state of being polluted. 2. the introduction of harmful substances or products into the environment: air pollution. [1350 1400; ME pollucioun ( < OF) < LL pollution , s. of pollutio… …   Universalium

• Pollution in China — Beijing air on a day after rain (left) and a sunny but Smoggy day (right) Pollution is causing serious problems in China. Contents 1 …   Wikipedia

• Pollution in eloor — ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION Environmental pollution is the addition of any substance or form of energy (e.g., heat, sound, radioactivity) to the environment at a rate faster than the environment can accommodate it by dispersion, breakdown, recycling …   Wikipedia

• Pollution — For the Fransisco Battiato album, see Pollution (album). For the Goodies episode, see Pollution (The Goodies). Air pollution from World War II weapon production in Alabama, 1942 …   Wikipedia

• acid rain — precipitation, as rain, snow, or sleet, containing relatively high concentrations of acid forming chemicals, as the pollutants from coal smoke, chemical manufacturing, and smelting, that have been released into the atmosphere and combined with… …   Universalium

• Acid Rain Program — The Acid Rain Program is a market based initiative taken by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in an effort to reduce overall atmospheric levels of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, which cause acid rain… …   Wikipedia

• Acid — This article is about acids in chemistry. For the drug, see Lysergic acid diethylamide. For other uses, see Acid (disambiguation). Acidity redirects here. For the novelette, see Acidity (Novelette). Acids and Bases …   Wikipedia

• acid mine drainage — noun acid drainage triggered by mining processes, especially those which expose large surface areas of rock. Abbrev.: AMD Acid mine drainage describes the toxic environmental effect of contaminated water runoff from mining sites (often abandoned) …