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Complex Mixtures > Acid Rain
... > Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Environmental Pollution > Water Pollution > Water Pollution, Chemical > Acid Rain
... > Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Environmental Pollution > Water Pollution > Water Pollution, Chemical > Acid Rain
... > Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Environmental Pollution > Water Pollution > Water Pollution, Chemical > Acid Rain
Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Climatic Processes > Rain > Acid Rain
... > Environment and Public Health > Environment > Meteorological Concepts > Atmosphere > Weather > Rain > Acid Rain
... > Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Meteorological Concepts > Atmosphere > Weather > Rain > Acid Rain

Preferred term

Acid Rain  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Acid Rains
  • Rain, Acid
  • Rains, Acid

Note

  • specify geog if pertinent

Scope note

  • Acidic water usually pH 2.5 to 4.5, which poisons the ecosystem and adversely affects plants, fishes, and mammals. It is caused by industrial pollutants, mainly sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides, emitted into the atmosphere and returning to earth in the form of acidic rain water.

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