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What can acid rain do to buildings and statues

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The chemicals that acid rain contains can have damaging effects on objects like buildings, monuments, statues, and cars.

Its components can make paint to be peel, stone construction appears old, worn down which reduces the architectural value and beauty.

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Depending on how acidic the rain is, it can obliterate these constructions to a brutal degree.

First, components like sulfurous, sulfuric and nitric acids mix with air and rain. Then they react with calcite or calcium-based compounds in marble and limestone and dissolve calcite.

The dry depositions of acidic particles contribute severely to the corrosion of construction materials, building paints, stones like marble, limestones and various type of granites.

Acid rains aggravate the life value of buildings and architectural structures.

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