What is another word for acid rain?

Pronunciation: [ˈasɪd ɹˈe͡ɪn] (IPA)

Acid rain is a type of precipitation that is highly acidic due to the presence of pollutants in the atmosphere. It can cause severe damage to natural ecosystems and can even harm human health. There are several synonyms for the term "acid rain," such as acid deposition, acidic precipitation, and acid precipitation. The term acid deposition is commonly used to refer to the deposition of acidic substances from the atmosphere onto the surface of the earth. Acidic precipitation and acid precipitation are also synonyms that are often used interchangeably with the term acid rain, to describe the harmful effects of man-made pollutants in the environment.

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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Acid rain

  • Saying sulfates do not cause acid rain is the same as saying that smoking does not cause lung cancer.
    Drew Lewis
  • When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.
    Dennis Weaver
  • Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.
    Pierre Trudeau
  • In the Smokies, over 90 percent of Fraser firs—a noble tree, unique to the southern Appalachian highlands—are sick or dying, from a combination of acid rain and the depredations of a moth called the balsam woolly adelgid. Ask a park official what they are doing about it and he will say, “We are monitoring the situation closely.” For this, read: “We are watching them die.”
    Bill Bryson
  • If indigenous Amazonian tribes were subjects to acid rain, the liberals were emotionally devastated. But if a trailer park of white trash across town all got cancer because they lived atop a toxic dump, it was a joke.
    Jim Goad

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