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प्रश्न
What are the effects of acid rain?
उत्तर
Effects of Acid Rain:
- Acid rain increases acidity in the soil and destroys forests and crops.
- It corrodes fences, buildings, monuments, bridges and statues.
- It affects the human nervous system by causing neurological diseases.
- It poses a serious threat to human health, since it contaminates air and water.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
What is acid rain?
What causes acidic deposition?
Acid rainfall is involved with the (decreased, increased, normal) acidity in rivers, destroying aquatic animals.
State the natural and man-made sources of the two pollutants responsible for acid rain.
Burning of fossil fuels is an important source of the pollutant – ‘oxides of sulphur’ responsible for acid rain.
State what are ‘fossil fuels’. Name the principal fossil fuels. State why sulphur dioxide is emitted on burning a fossil fuel. Give a balanced equation for the same.
During metallurgy – smelting plants produce sulphur dioxide, when metallic sulphides are roasted in air. Give a balanced equation for the same.
Explain the basic function of a catalytic converter in an internal combustion engine.
Give reasons why acid rain affects marine organisms.
Give balanced equation for the following conversion [one or two steps].
Sulphur trioxide to sulphuric acid – a constituent of acid rain.
Acid rain has adverse effect on the environment State the effect acid rain has on the following:
The nutrients present in the soil.
