acid rain From: A Dictionary of Geography | Date: 2004| Author: | © A Dictionary of Geography 2004, originally published by Oxford University Press 2004. Copyright information

acid rain When fossil fuels are burned, dioxides of sulphur and nitrogen are released into the air. When inhaled, these dry deposits can lead to breathing problems. The pollutants dissolve in atmospheric water particles to form acid rain.

Industrial development, particularly in the mid‐latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, has been responsible for the emission of increasing quantities of such atmospheric pollutants, which can travel large distances, generally being carried eastwards by the prevailing westerly winds; the OECD estimated in the early 1990s that 85% of the sulphur ...

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