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    Acid rain results in many ecological effects, with the most severe of these affects being its impact on lakes, streams, and aquatic environments in general. It negatively affects marine life, because acid rain makes waters acidic, causing the absorption of Aluminum; which is a combination that threatens some aquatic animals. As the acidity of water increases, the number of fish and marine animals in general decline. Although, there are some species that are able to survive in acidic water,…

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    amount of impurities such as sulfur and nitrogen. These impurities make bunker fuel extremely cheap for ship operators, but has a much more negative effect on the environment, as when the fuel is burnt the impurities are released into the atmosphere.  Rain is naturally slightly acidic because it combines with carbon dioxide when it falls through the atmosphere and forms carbonic acid (H_2 CO_3), lowering the pH of rain to around 5.6. However, the release of nitrogen and sulfur from burning…

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    The knowledge of the world is forever growing and we as a civilization or continually growing and need to provide ourselves with new cleaner sources of energy and the explorations of the natural resources just may help. But is the exploration of natural resources may not be the greatest of solutions for our current environment. Take the world today we run on coal and fossil fuels that damage the earth 's ecosystems put the plant at risk of being uninhabitable. Therefore a need arises to examine…

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    Sulfuric Acid

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    1.Identify the goals (technical, cost, economic, operational, health and safety, environmental) of the process and where goals are competing, Technical of the process Based on the Potential for Human Exposure at United State about 714 facilities were released over 15,077,944 Kg of sulfuric acid to the environment and 8,929,868 Kg of sulphuric acid to air. The most that was recorded for the concentrations of sulfuric acid in air were 678 ug/m3 in London, 240ug/m3 in Los Angeles, and 50 ug/m3…

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    out and the main byproduct is carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. (Fischer, Douglas) The more carbon dioxide in the faster temperature rises, so has the emission regulate carbon dioxide emission before it out of control. Also the other byproducts are harmful as to the environment as to human. When fossil fuels are burned they release hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide gases and heavy metals leave behind, when burned it release hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide the gases will mix with water in…

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    factories need an energy source to power their productivity, by burning fossil fuel or a particular coal, some factories used power generator which put a large amount of carbo dioxide into the air this can cause a greater air pollution than the factories processes. The metal smelting factories produce emissions of sulfur and carbon dioxide, aluminum smelting can put out arsenic particulates which lead and gold refining put out mercury and cyanide emissions. The food processing factories also can…

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    Antoine-Jérôme Balard in the residues from the manufacture of sea salt at Montpellier. He liberated the element by passing chlorine through an aqueous solution of the residues, that contained magnesium bromide. Distillation of the material with manganese dioxide and sulfuric acid produced red vapours, which condensed to a dark liquid. The similarity of this procedure to that for making chlorine suggested to Balard that he had obtained a new element similar to chlorine. German chemist Justus von…

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    in Mexico City, Mexico, such as damage to vegetation, harm to the atmosphere, and harm to human beings. What is the impact of the air pollution in Mexico? Incomplete of fuels contributes to higher levels of gases such as carbon monoxide, ozone, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides-pollutants that harm eyes, lungs, and the heart. In addition, these gases, along with chemicals from factories, mix with water droplets in clouds and fall as acid rain. To reduce all this air pollution, the city…

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    global warming is Carbon Dioxide. The carbon gas, which is emitted from nature is again reduced by trees which sink in the carbon gas. Major activities which cause the carbon dioxide emission are everyday human activities, industrial activities, deforestation and even some natural sources such as methane from cows. The source of this gas are both human and Natural which upsets the nature’s balance of the environment. Humans are one of the prime contributors of carbon dioxide through various day…

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    as the change in ocean chemistry driven by the oceanic uptake of chemical inputs to the atmosphere, including carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur compounds (Guinotte and Fabry, p.320). Today, the overwhelming cause of ocean acidification is anthropogenic atmospheric carbon dioxide. Over the past two-hundred years, the rapid increase in anthropogenic atmospheric carbon dioxide has directly led to decreasing ocean pH through air-sea gas exchange, driven by the land-use changes such as, the burning of…

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