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Causes of Acid Rain - Introduction to Biology - Lecture Slides, Slides of Biology

These are the lecture slides of Introduction to Biology. Key important points are: Causes of Acid Rain, Air Pollution, Burning of Fossil Fuels, Normal Rain, Form of Water Pollution, Ecological Effects from Acid Rain, Lake System, Trophic Levels of Food Webs, Polychloronated Biphenyls

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Download Causes of Acid Rain - Introduction to Biology - Lecture Slides and more Slides Biology in PDF only on Docsity! Causes of Acid Rain Air pollution • Burning of fossil fuels - Power plants - Cars, trucks, airplanes The main chemicals • Sulfur dioxide • Nitrogen oxides Docsity.com Acid Rain Normal Rain • H2O + CO2  H+ + HCO3- • A pH of 5.6 • Water + carbon dioxide  proton + carbonic acid Acid Rain • Form of water pollution • More acidic than normal rain • Has pH < 5.6 • nitrous dioxide + water  nitrous acid + nitric acid 2NO2 + H2O  HNO2+ HNO3 • sulfur dioxide + water  sulfuric acid SO2 + H2O H2SO4 Docsity.com
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