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What makes acid rain so destructive?

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16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Acid rain lowers the pH of ponds where it stresses aquatic organisms; it causes heavy metal salts to leach out of the soil into streams and aquifers where the heavy metals poison organisms; and it dissolves limestone, increasing erosion of bare rock.

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