the acidity of normal rain water is due to a)co2 b)cl2 c)no2 d)so2

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anonymous · Answer

what do you think? :)

chmvijay · Answer

the atmosphere is filled with  a lot of carbon dioxide soo....

nincompoop · Answer

interesting!!!

nincompoop · Answer

how about sulfur oxide? do they contribute to the acidity of rains?

chmvijay · Answer

yaaa but not for normal rain , they cause the acid rain most of time  :)

nincompoop · Answer

I mean normal rain really? with a century of industrial expansion, there would hardly a normal rain I would posit.

chmvijay · Answer

The acid created by carbon dioxide  is carbonic acid which not so acidic is weak acid and is present in most of the time in normal rain water whose pH will be in between 4 to 7

nincompoop · Answer

http://www.epa.gov/air/airtrends/sulfur.html

preetha · Answer

Normal rain water implies not polluted air.  Polluted air would be due to sulfur and nitrogne oxides.  NOx as they are sometimes called.  Normal would probably be due to CO2.

nincompoop · Answer

But I do agree that $$CO_2$$ is one source in acidity in a  "normal" rain.

nincompoop · Answer

ya THANK TO EPA and regulatory boards in the UN for skewed definition of polluted air. I do however, like the fact that we are doing something to help curb polluting the air at a very rapid rate. For more information, http://www.epa.gov/air/urbanair/

chmvijay · Answer

http://www.epa.gov/air/airtrends/sulfur.html From this what you want to conclude is that SO2 gas emission is decreasing year by year right but it is in some countries only some other countries still its under process..

zale101 · Answer

@babi, did this help?

zale101 · Answer

Oh, he/she is offline

abb0t · Answer

it's due to complex carbohydrates. could you imagine it rained donuts.