acid rain
酸雨,酸性雨
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- : precipitation, as rain, snow, or sleet, containing relatively high concentrations of acid-forming chemicals, as the pollutants from coal smoke, chemical manufacturing, and smelting, that have been released into the atmosphere and combined with water vapor: harmful to the environment.
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Through the 1970s and 1980s, many of Vermont’s trees began to sicken and die en masse, a phenomenon linked to acid rain from cars and smokestacks, before 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act helped reverse the decline.
The acid rain crisis was addressed through market forces—but those forces were brought to bear by Big Government and the Environmental Protection Agency through the organization and enforcement of emissions markets and penalties.
State-by-state laws on the pollutants causing acid rain would not have worked nearly as well, particularly since the causes of acid rain were Midwest power plants while victims were mainly East Coast states.
I write the lyrics and work with Murv Douglas from Lords of Acid.
During the height of his disenchantment, he visited his hometown where an old friend gave him some liquid acid.
“Firestorms Will Rain on the Headquarters of War,” the title threatened.
Eggs, he says, are a good source of cysteine, an amino acid that helps the liver break down alcohol faster.
Basosila Botala is wearing a blue rain jacket despite the sweltering heat.
She set off down Trafalgar Road in the mist and the rain, glad that she had been compelled to walk.
There are a number of bacilli, called acid-fast bacilli, which stain in the same way as the tubercle bacillus.
The riches of the unjust shall be dried up like a river, and shall pass away with a noise like a great thunder in rain.
The amount of the other purin bodies together is about one-tenth that of uric acid.