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Title: Amateur scientist - acid rain

Journal Article · · Sci. Am.; (United States)
OSTI ID:5231021

An experiment is described whereby 16,000 grammar school students measured the acidity of freshly fallen rain. The acidity of all rain that fell in the US from March 15 to March 31, 1973 was charted within an accuracy of pH .2. The results show that heavy pollution acidifies substantially all rain that falls east of the Mississippi River.

OSTI ID:
5231021
Journal Information:
Sci. Am.; (United States), Vol. 230:6
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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