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Explain the circumstance leading to acid rain.​

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Burning of fossil fuels releases a lot of pollutants such as sulphur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide into the atmosphere, and reacts with the water in the atmosphere to form sulphuric acid or nitric acid. Hence, acid rain is formed as that acid comes down from the atmosphere along with the rain.

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