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... What Tim and his father witnessed is of the effects of acid water from acid rain. What causes acid rain, how does it harm the environment, and what efforts are being taken to control it?
Acid rain is a form of air pollution in which acid from pollutants fall on Earth’s surface as precipitation. The water from acid rain is corrosive which causes significant amount of damage to the environment (“Acid Rain”). Robert Angus Smith was the first person to use the term “acid rain. ... Acid rain begins with the production of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, which are produced from the burning of fossil fuel, such as oil, and coal. There are many other sources of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, but the burning of fossil fuel is the major source (“Acid Rain”).
The formation of acid rain starts with the burning of fuels that contain sulfur and nitrogen.
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