Acid Rain :: science

sulfurous RainINTRODUCTION Acid rainwater is a great problem in our world. It causes fish and plants to come about in our waters. As well it causes harm to our own race as well, because we eat these fish, drink this water and eat these plants. It is a problem that we moldiness all face together and try to get rid of. notwithstanding acid rain on its own is not the biggest problem. It cause galore(postnominal) other problems such as aluminum poisoning. Acid Rain is deadly. WHAT IS harsh RAIN? Acid rain is all the rain, snow, mist etc that falls from the turn over onto our planet that contains an unnatural acidic. It is not to be confused with uncontaminated rain that falls, for that rain is naturally slightly acidic. It is caused by todays industry. When products are manufactured galore(postnominal) chemicals are used to create it. However because of the difficulty and cost of the right way disposing of these products they are often emitted into the atmosphere with little or no treatment. The barrier was first considered to be important about 20 years past when scientists in Sweden and Norway first believed that acidic rain may be causation great ecological damage to the planet. The problem was that by the eon that the scientist fix the problem it was already very large. Detecting an acid lake is often quite an difficult. A lake does not become acid over night. It happens over a period of many years, some times decades. The changes are usually to dawdling for them to be noticed early. At the beginning of the 20th century about rivers/lakes like the river Tovdal in Norway had not yet begun to die. However by 1926 local anesthetic inspectors were noticing that many of the lakes were beginning to show signs of death. Fish were found dead along the banks of many rivers. As the winters ice began to melt off more(prenominal) and more hundreds upon hundreds more dead fish (trout in particular) were being found. It was at this time that scientist bega n to search for the reason. As the scientists continued to work they found many lashings of dead fish, up to 5000 in one pile, further up the river. divers(prenominal) were sent in to examine the bottom of the rivers. What they found were many more dead fish. Many live and dead specimens were taken back to labs crossways Norway.