Acid rain is caused by two major air pollutants. What are these two air pollutants?

Acid rain is caused by two major air pollutants named sulphur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide. These gases react with water vapour present in atmosphere to form sulphuric acid and nitric acid respectively. These water vapours makes the rain acidic called 'acid rain’. Natural volcanic emissions, automobiles, factories burning coals etc. are responsible for acid rain.


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