Acid Rain is caused by pollution containing sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, and ozone that is released into the air. These chemicals are absorbed into clouds and results in Acid Presipitation ( Acid Rain, Acid Snow, Acid Hail, Acid Sleet ). When the chemicals aren't absorbed into the clouds, they can drift for miles and fall to the ground, resulting in Acid Deposition, or dry deposition.

When Acid Rain falls into water it is mixed in with the normal water and causes the pH of the entire body to be raised. Measurments on the pH scale, rise greatly; a lake with a pH of 4 is ten times as acidic as a lake with a pH of 5, and a lake with a pH of 3 is 100 times as acidic, After many rain falls of Acid rain, the pH of a normal lake would go from 5.8 to 4.
Acid Rain has been known to reach the acidity of pH 2, ( battery acid has a pH if 1 ) this is a drastic change, as normal rain is average pH 5.2. (Brown, 1999)

Acid Rain can dissolve limestone and chalk, and corrodes outdoor......

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