What Can WE Do ?

How YOU Can Help

First Off , since this problem has to do with pollution, one good thing you can do is follow the 3 R's : Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. Switch your lightbulbs and conserve energy and which way you can.

Secondly, another cause of acid rain is Nitrogen oxides, which are caused by cars. Decrease the amount of cars out on the street by using public transportation and carpooling. It isn't hard to go green, you just have to be motivated to do it ! 

How does Acid Rain Affect Our Pockets ?

Acid rain does indeed affect building materials by a process called corrosion. It precipitates onto the buildings and forms crystals, which then break off pieces of the material.

Building materials most likely to corrode are: limestone, marble, carbon-steel, zinc, nickel, paint and some plastics. The chemicals in acid rain can also eat away at fabrics and discolour them, like flags.

Acid rain can also affect architecture. It causes buildings to corrode from leftover acid depositions on structures from a rain. Limestone and marble turn into gypsum when effected by acid rain.

Some of the most famous sculptures that have been effected by acid rain include: the Taj Mahal, Notre Dame Cathedral, and the Colosseum.

It causes our roads, highways, and bridges to corrode and become weaker. This is not only unsafe for roads and highways, but also for bridges because if a bridge is weak, it will collapse. It costs a lot of money to keep replacing the roads, highways and bridges, and it comes out of taxpayers money.

Cars, trains and buses are affected by acid rain. They are all weathered from the acid rain precipitate and suffer the effects of corrosion. These items are mainly made out of iron and steel, so they get very rusted from the acid content.

Since buildings corrode and get worn down earlier due to acid rain, this means more money going into keeping up the structure and image of the buildings. Cars have to be replaced quicker because they get worn down quicker and roads, highways, and bridges have to be maintained more often because of the wear due to acid rain.

This hurts the fisheries because if the acid rain is harming the bodies of water and causing for the fish to die, then the fishers will not have anything to hunt, thus losing their jobs. Acid rain hurts trees and other forestry and that means that we will not be able to cut down trees and use it to make products and sell...losing even more money. Agriculture would also be hurt and dying which means that businesses would not find produce to sell. 

 

How does Acid Rain Affect Us ?

Acid rain can cause problems such as asthma, dry cough, eye, nose, and throat irritations.

It can damage your lungs, liver problems and give you diarrhea.

Acid rain isn’t as affective / dangerous but it does damage humans health.

Sulfur dioxide interact in the atmosphere to form sulfate aerosol that travels long distance through the air. The plants absorbs the acid rain and so do animals. We happen to eat these plants and animals and it damages our insides.

Brain damage, kidney problems or more problems the may occur.

The polluted rainfall is harmful to people who had asthma or hard time breathing. This may also lead to the cause of death.

 

Acid Rain And The Earth

What Does Acid Rain Do To The Earth ? 

• Acid rain weakens the trees by damaging their leaves, and limiting the nutrients available to them or poisoning them with toxic substances slowly released from the soil.
• This affects us by making us unable to maintain paper and grow good crops
• When the lakes become acidic, it gets very dangerous for fishes and other species. Acid in the water causes mucus goes in their gills, which make them not observe oxygen causing them to suffocate.
• Acidic water affects us because the drinking water may contain lead or some levels of arsenic and it’s dangerous. 
• The aquatic in our area is being affected and the danger signs of acid rain are dead animals, fish floating around, the water will be nasty and dirty looking, stuff that’s not usual.
  

Basics on Acid Rain

Basics On Acid Rain

• Acid rain is a term used in many different ways. Precise term is a acid deposition and has two parts which is wet and dry.
•  Wet deposition refers to rain, acid, fog and snow.
• PH in chemistry is a measure of acidity of solution. Pure water has a pH close that’s 7.0 at 25 Celsius (77 Fahrenheit). Nitrogen, Sulphur and carbon are the chemicals that make the rain acidic.
  

  

  
  
• Cars and other places tend to mix up with the water vapor.
• The rain drops become acidic in nature. Do you know how to measure acidity of rain? You can measure the acidity by using pH paper indicators that change color. Here are the instructions to measure rain, First, When its forecast to rain, place the beaker outside and collect about 5 ml  of the rain water. Then, detach a strip of the hydrogen pH paper. Next, Hold one end of the pH paper strip, put the other end into the rain and take it out after one or two seconds. The part of the paper that was in the water should change color. Finally, compare the color of the paper with the scale primed on the pH paper.
• The pH range is between 5.5 and .5. The pH cannot be 7 because of carbon acid rain contains rain droplets that comes from the atmosphere.
• The pH can become very low when there is a big amount of acid. A lot of fish have  died in ponds because the amount of acid rain is 4.9 .