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We don't hear much about this issue anymore. Partly because the laws have reduced particulates greatly and all but eliminated CFC's. But pollution hasn't gone away - it's just gone out of vogue as a celebrity cause.

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The Atmospheric Science Division (Canada) evaluates the impact of acidifying emission control programs by analyzing the changes in acid deposition at regionally-representative monitoring sites in the Atlantic Region and determining which areas are exposed to continuing acidification because deposition levels exceed the environmental damage level ("critical load").

What is Acid Rain and What Causes It? "Acid rain" is a broad term used to describe several ways that acids fall out of the atmosphere. A more precise term is acid deposition, which has two parts: wet and dry.

Make a Cabbage Juice pH Indicator The HowStuffWorks team creates experiments that demonstrate how a thing or a process works. You may have heard that citrus juices are acids or that ammonia is a base. The terms acid and base refer to the concentration of hydrogen ions (pH) in the substance; acids have a high concentration of hydrogen ions, while bases have a low concentration of hydrogen ions. But how can you test whether a substance is an acid or base? In this experiment, you will make your own pH indicator from red cabbage and use it to measure some liquids to see whether they are acids or bases. (Beware of PopUps!)

The Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Environment is a one-stop source of information, for younger and older users alike, on a range of atmospheric issues, including air quality, acid rain, global warming and ozone depletion.

Acid Rain in the Northeastern United States Contains spring (April-June) and summer (July-September) nitrate and sulfate wet deposition records for 1980-90, at the state and county levels, for the northeastern U.S states. The following jurisdictions are covered: Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia. The records for all the states and counties reside together in separate files for each season (ARSPRING.WK1 and ARSUMMER.WK1).

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