Tag: air and air pollution

Sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides react with water vapor in the atmosphere to form sulfuric and nitric acids, which fall as acid rain.

Smog is well known for causing irritation in the eye. It may also result in inflammation in the tissues of lungs, giving rise to pain in the chest.

Smog is a type of air pollution resulting from the mixture of smoke and fog, often containing particulate matter and ground-level ozone.

Smog is a thick fog-like layer in the atmosphere, especially during winters, made up of fog and smoke. 

Smog can be defined as a mixture of various gases with dust and water vapour.

Buildings are eroded by acid rains. When acid rain makes way into lakes, rivers it affects the aquatic life and affects the forests by affecting the minerals uptake of the plants.

When oxides of sulphur and nitrogen emitted by the industries, react with the moisture present in the atmosphere they form acids.

Heavy smog is responsible for decreasing the UV radiation greatly.

Smoke is a form of dry deposition of acid rain.

Acid rains are caused when the pollutants such as sulphur dioxide and nitrous oxide formed due to the burning of the fossil fuels are released in the atmosphere, where they travel upwards and mixes with oxygen, air and moisture to form pollutants called acidic oxide pollutants.