Acid rain lab -The Effects of Sulfuric Acid on Aluminum Stripes
The Effects of Sulfuric Acid on Aluminum Stripes
Introduction
Acid rain is a very volatile acid that can degrade just about every building material. It is made by the atmosphere being injected with residue from factories. It makes the pH of the rain seem to drastically change and become more reactive with normal materials. Sulfuric acid seems to have that same effect. Sulfuric acid can react with impales amount of chemicals including many metals, in this case aluminum. The metal aluminum and the chemical sulfuric acid together would lead to unprecedented reactions depending on the molarities of the solutions. “Reactant particles must collide for a reaction to occur, but only a certain fraction of the total collisions have the energy to connect effectively and cause the reactants to transform into products.” (Lewis, 2008). The collision theory will apply to this situation because the more concentration of the sulfuric acid there is being placed on the aluminum, which is the building material, the more collisions will take place of the particles resulting in a more drastic reaction. Acid rain works in the same way as having heavy amounts of acid rain fall at once seem to do more damage do to the concentration coming down more drastically. Overall the effects of acid rain seem to lead to an array of possibly.