ACID RAIN Essays (417 words) - Chemistry, Matter, Mineral Acids

ACID RAIN Author's Name Institutional Affiliation When Sulfuric acid come in contact in the air with nitric acid, it increases the acidity of water and other atmospheric materials thereby falling and causing wreckage to any area that will have been touched by the rain. It is basically any form of precipitation that is of an acidic nature, not necessarily rain. Acid rain can also form in snow, hail or other dust materials in the atmosphere. Structures that are affected by this kind of rain are generally all structures, including metallic materials and mainly stone materials. The tombstones in cemeteries are destroyed by the gradual downfall of acid rain. This slowly disintegrates the rock structures and distorts the names carved on the tombstones. Mostly the monuments and tombstones use granite or marble and write the names using a metallic material, stone or even simple paint. Due to the acid rain falling on these structures, they lose detail and are slowly forgotten if nothing is done to them to save them. It also dirties them by making them brown and untidy. This is a big problem in these industrial cities for first of all it makes the city look old and dirty, not forgetting that people will begin to forget the symbolism of the structure or forget the details of a tombstone, more so in historic cemeteries. It is possible to evaluate the degree of weathering of these materials by looking at it currently and compare with its original status when first created and then to gauge the level of damage it has reached, in terms of how much paint is lost or how much crumble it has encountered. The most suitable way to curb the damage that acid rain is causing to structures is to use shelter mechanisms in order for the shelter to be wasting away gradually while protecting the structure from excessive damage (Schaeffer Hawkes 2017 April). It is logically impossible to completely stop the gradual damage but it is possible to slow them by all means possible. Also, the reduction of human-caused pollution in order to reduce the risk of the PH in the atmosphere to be acidic. References Schaeffer, D., Martin, P., Hawkes, K. (2017, April). The Effects of Acid Rain and Soil Pollution on the Growth of Brassica rapa. In Proceedings of the Plant Biology Symposium (Vol. 1, No. 1).