{"id":790,"date":"2023-06-14T14:45:29","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T09:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=790"},"modified":"2024-04-03T07:01:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:31:30","slug":"q-acid-rain-is-caused-by-the-pollution-of-environment-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-acid-rain-is-caused-by-the-pollution-of-environment-by","title":{"rendered":"Q. Acid rain is caused by the pollution of environment by"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"mcq wp-block-list\">\n<li>Carbon dioxide and nitrogen<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ozone and carbon dioxide<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nitrous oxide and sulphur dioxide<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (d) Nitrous oxide and sulphur dioxide<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Acid Rain<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The term Acid Rain was first coined by Scottish chemist&nbsp;<strong>Robert Angus Smith<\/strong>&nbsp;in the year 1852.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Normal rainwater is weakly acidic<\/strong>&nbsp;due to the presence of carbonic acid, which is formed due to the absorption of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Definition of Acid Rain<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Rain or any other form of precipitation that has a&nbsp;<strong>higher level of hydrogen ions (i.e.&nbsp;low pH &lt; 5.6), is termed as Acid Rain.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Oxides of sulphur and nitrogen<\/strong>&nbsp;which are acidic in nature are responsible for causing Acid Rain.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Human activities<\/strong>&nbsp;like the burning of fossil fuels, volcanic activities, etc. result in the formation of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>These oxides after oxidation and reaction with water are the major contributors to Acid Rain.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Following chemical reactions occur:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2SO<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;(g) + O<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;(g) + 2H<sub>2<\/sub>O (l)&nbsp;\u2192 2H<sub>2<\/sub>SO<sub>4<\/sub>&nbsp;(aq)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>4NO2 (g) +&nbsp;O2&nbsp;(g) +&nbsp;2H2O (l)&nbsp;\u2192 4HNO<sub>3<\/sub>&nbsp;(aq)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Aftermaths<\/strong>&nbsp;of Acid Rain:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Deteriorates plant and animal life in the aquatic ecosystem.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It corrodes water pipes resulting in the leaching of heavy metals (iron, lead, copper) into drinking water.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It damages buildings and other structures made of metal or stone (eg. Taj Mahal)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chemical reaction occurring at the surface of&nbsp;<strong>Taj Mahal: CaCO<sub>3<\/sub>&nbsp;+&nbsp;H2SO4&nbsp;\u2192 CaSO<sub>4<\/sub>&nbsp;+&nbsp;H2O + CO<sub>2<\/sub><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Acid-rain-1024x893.png\" alt=\"Acid rain\" class=\"wp-image-39928\" width=\"726\" height=\"632\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_3cc120-12 .kt-block-spacer{height:40px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_3cc120-12 .kt-divider{border-top-width:2px;border-top-color:#eee;width:100%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-_3cc120-12\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer: (d) Nitrous oxide and sulphur dioxide Acid Rain Aftermaths&nbsp;of Acid Rain:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[36],"years":[60],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-environment","years-60"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":36,"label":"Environment"}],"years":[{"value":60,"label":"2013"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":36,"name":"Environment","slug":"environment","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":36,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":193,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}