What is the pH acid rain?

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anor277
Feb 11, 2017

Occasional readings of acid rain have revealed a #pH# as low as #2.4#.

Explanation:

See this site. Now I enjoy walking in the rain, but rain with such #pH# would actually burn you. The culprits? Of course they are nitrogen and sulfur oxides whose atmospheric chemistry gives nitrous, nitric, sulfurous, and sulfuric acid.

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