Acidification is caused by multiple forces including chemical weathering of soils, production of dissolved organic carbon from decaying vegetation, input of marine aerosols, dilution by rain water or snowmelt, oxidation of previously reduced sulfur and nitrogen, and acid rain (largely sulfur- and ...
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Acid rain has the unsettling ability to erase and obliterate stone and metal, the most durable of materials. Old buildings, monuments and tombstones bear the smooth signs of acidic corrosion and deterioration. Acid deposition speeds up natural weathering caused by rain, sun, snow and wind. Acid ...
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Acid rain is mainly composed of sulfuric acid and nitric acid aqueous solutions, which can deteriorate the mechanical properties of soil and thus threaten the safety of soil engineerings. In this paper, the influence of sulfuric acid rain on mechanical p
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The secondary sulfur minerals tend to be highly soluble during rain events, producing extremely acidic waters rich in dissolved metals and minerals (Alpers and Nordstrom 1999). Secondary sulfate minerals were observed at the shale-source site in Middle Tennessee during the early stage of this ...
A green house experiment was conducted to investigate the performance of Chinese cabbage and radish and changes in soil chemical properties after application of different amounts of simulated acid rain (SAR). About 10mm of normal water (pH 6.0), 5mm of SAR followed by 5mm of normal water, and...
The weathering of rocks converts arsenic sulfides into arsenic trioxide, which enters the arsenic cycle as dust or by dissolution in rain, rivers, or groundwater, thus entering the food chain (e.g., arsenic may be abundant in certain seafoods). The form and concentration of arsenic depend ...
Acid rain in the pollution sense is produced by the conversion of the primary pollutants sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NO and NO2) to sulfuric acid (H2SO4) and nitric acid (HNO3), respectively, to generate an acid solution with a pH lower than 5. In fact, the term acid ...