ECOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
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Question
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can still send a person to the hospital in an ambulance
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is still very harmful to the environment by harming buildings, rivers, and wildlife
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will eat away water and air pollution all over Europe, even 3, 000 miles away
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is still okay to drink, cook, and bathe with
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Detailed explanation-1: -Acid rain is never acidic enough to burn human skin. However, very strong acids can, and will, burn your skin on contact, and can even destroy some metals.
Detailed explanation-2: -Acid rain leaches aluminum from the soil. That aluminum may be harmful to plants as well as animals. Acid rain also removes minerals and nutrients from the soil that trees need to grow.
Detailed explanation-3: -When sulfurous, sulfuric, and nitric acids in polluted air and rain react with the calcite in marble and limestone, the calcite dissolves. In exposed areas of buildings and statues, we see roughened surfaces, removal of material, and loss of carved details.
Detailed explanation-4: -Acid rain can be formed by natural causes, such as volcanic eruptions. More commonly, however, acid rain is due to human activities. Burning fossil fuels, manufacturing, oil refineries, electricity generation, and vehicles all release sulfur and nitrogen oxides into the atmosphere.