Acid Rain | Environmental Chemistry | Chemistry | FuseSchool

Acid Rain | Environmental Chemistry | Chemistry | FuseSchool

Learn the basics about acid rain and what causes it in this video!

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[leiacat]

here's a quick summary -

1) Normal rain:
Average ph of the rain is 6 (slightly acidic due to the rain water combining with carbon dioxide to produce weak acid : carbonic acid)
2)Chemicals present in acid rain and their effect on ph.:
HNO3 and H2SO4 are the major chemicals responsible for acidic rain. They can even lower the ph of rain to 3(which means increasing acidity of rain a thousand times)
3) How is HNO3 produced ?
- Due to high temperature dioxygen and dinitrogen react : N2+O2= NO
- NO+O2=NO2
- NO2+H2O=HNO3
4) How is H2SO4 produced?
- Plants fulfill their sulphur requirements through K2SO4 present in soil. Millions of years later, we obtain this sulphur in form of fossil fuels.
-S+O2=SO2
-SO2+O2=SO3
- SO3+H20=H2SO4

5) How is acid rain harmful to organisms?
Enzymes function at specific conditions of ph. When Ph increases, these enzymes vital for growth of organism are not able to function

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a)SO2
b)CO
c)CO2
d)H2S

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