Acid Rain Investigation
Background information:
o There are many different kinds of erosion but acid rain or else wind erosion are the two main types which could have eroded the marble statue which was positioned in the garden close to the industrial site.
o Acid rain is made up from of a cocktail of different acids e.g. sulphuric acid, nitric acid, carbonic acid. Sulphuric acid is released into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil, nitric acid is given off from car exhaust fumes, These gases react with water vapour and oxygen from the atmosphere and with the help of sunlight turn to acids and fall to ground in the forms of precipitation with high acidity levels which are between pH 1.5 and 5 (acid rain or acid snow).
o Sulphur dioxide is harmful to humans and can led to bronchitis and other lung diseases.
o Sulphur is released into the atmosphere through burning fossil fuels; most of the world's air pollution is due to the smoke given off from burning things.
o The increasing amount of acid rain, which falls each year, is due to the increasing amount factories and vehicles on our roads.
o Lakes in Scandinavia are effected very badly by acid rain even though very little of it is actually produced there, it is carried mainly by prevailing winds from Germany, France, the UK and other large industrialised European countries.
Background information:
o There are many different kinds of erosion but acid rain or else wind erosion are the two main types which could have eroded the marble statue which was positioned in the garden close to the industrial site.
o Acid rain is made up from of a cocktail of different acids e.g. sulphuric acid, nitric acid, carbonic acid. Sulphuric acid is released into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil, nitric acid is given off from car exhaust fumes, These gases react with water vapour and oxygen from the atmosphere and with the help of sunlight turn to acids and fall to ground in the forms of precipitation with high acidity levels which are between pH 1.5 and 5 (acid rain or acid snow).
o Sulphur dioxide is harmful to humans and can led to bronchitis and other lung diseases.
o Sulphur is released into the atmosphere through burning fossil fuels; most of the world's air pollution is due to the smoke given off from burning things.
o The increasing amount of acid rain, which falls each year, is due to the increasing amount factories and vehicles on our roads.
o Lakes in Scandinavia are effected very badly by acid rain even though very little of it is actually produced there, it is carried mainly by prevailing winds from Germany, France, the UK and other large industrialised European countries.
