Acid rain (SOx, NOx)

Layer 2 — Chemistryin the environmental-chemistry subtree

Likens-Bormann 1972 Hubbard-Brook: SO2 + 1/2 O2 + H2O -> H2SO4; NO2 + OH -> HNO3; pH 4-4.5 in rain since industrial-revolution; Clean Air Act 1990 amendments reduced US emissions 80%.

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