The acids present in acid rain are sulphur dioxides and different oxides of nitrogen (SO2, NOx) (gsu.edu). ... The most common way sulphur dioxide is eliminated is through 'wet scrubbing'. ... The gas is neutralised because the limewater reacts with sulphur dioxide, which gets rid of most of the sulphur dioxide to form solid calcium sulfate and water (home.lcusd). ... Also, when sulphur dioxide reacts with alkali, sometimes carbon dioxide is formed which is a greenhouse gas that diminishes the ozone layer and highly pollutes the environment. ... Wet scrubbing neutralises the sulphur...

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The immense amounts of sulphur dioxide emitted into the air causes high levels of acid in the atmosphere. ... As with sulphur dioxide in rain, mercury is also discharged into the water. ... Acidic soil causes the carbon dioxide respiration process to decelerate. In order for plants to perform photosynthesis, they require carbon dioxide. ... The acid rain corrodes the thin, waxy layer, which coats and protects the leaves which in turn blocks the absorption of carbon dioxide and "suffocates" the leaves. ...

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The immense amounts of sulphur dioxide emitted into the air causes high levels of acid in the atmosphere. ... As with sulphur dioxide in rain, mercury is also discharged into the water. ... An inordinate amount of sulphur dioxide is let into the air, more than can be neutralized by nutrients in the air. ... Acid in the soil in causing the carbon dioxide respiration process to decelerate. In order for plants to go through photosynthesis, they need carbon dioxide. ...

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"By far the most common cause of acid rain is sulphur dioxide, which is believed to cause 70 percent of acid rain, with various oxides of Nitrogen (NOX) causing the remaining 30 percent"(4). ... This study explains that Congress had made amendments to the Clean Air Act in 1990, that was supposed to cut the sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions in half in coal-fired power plants and other industries(2). ... By reacting sulfur dioxide with calcium oxide to form calcium sulfite is a way of preventing escape of sulfur dioxide form industrial operations. ... Calcium Carbonate can also react w...

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Unpolluted rainfall is slightly acidic, with a natural pH of about 5, due to naturally occurring constituents of the atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide, but acid rain has a pH of about 4. ... Since passage (1970) of the Clean Air Act, U.S. emissions of sulfur dioxide have been reduced substantially, due to the burning of low-sulfur oil and coal, installation of costly scrubbers in smokestacks (see smoke) and electric plants, use of pollution controls by metal processors, reduction of diesel-fuel sulfur contents, and the installation of catalytic converters to clean automobile exhausts. ...

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Rain is naturally acidic because carbon dioxide, found normally in the earth's atmosphere, reacts with water to form carbonic acid. ... The acid in acid rain comes from two kinds of air pollutants-- sulphur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx). ...

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Did you ever wonder why rocks dissolve over generations or why chalk disappears in certain liquids? Well so did I until I came up with an inventive experiment to figure it out. I wanted to figure out why an acid would react with a base. I had to think of a way to demonstrate this. However, this expe...

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While in the process of burning oxygen combines with nitrogen, carbon and sulfur to form hazardous oxides omitted into the air (Blair 150). ... In the United States power plants are responsible for 70% of the sulfur dioxide pollution (Encarta). ...

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The "Trade" creates a market for carbon allowance. ... The reason why Cap and Trade came to be, was due to the problems in 1980, when plants were sending up clouds of sulfur dioxide, and was coming back to Earth in the form of acid rain. ...

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