acid rain

English

Etymology

Coined in 1872 by Scottish chemist Robert Angus Smith.

Pronunciation

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Noun

acid rain (countable and uncountable, plural acid rains)

1. Rain which is unusually acidic (pH of less than the natural range of 5 to 6); caused mainly by atmospheric pollution with sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide and nitrogen compounds.

   Hypernym: acid precipitation

   • 1987 January 20, “Airborne Pollutants”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Acid rain forms when water in the atmosphere condenses on particles containing acid-forming pollutants, such as sulfate produced by the burning of fossil fuels and nitrogen oxides from automobile exhausts.

Translations

unusually acidic rain

• Albanian: shiu acid
• Arabic: مَطَر حَمْضِيّ (ar) m (maṭar ḥamḍiyy)
• Belarusian: кісло́тны дождж m (kislótny doždž)
• Bulgarian: киселинен дъжд m (kiselinen dǎžd)
• Catalan: pluja àcida
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 酸雨 (zh) (suānyǔ), 酸性雨 (zh) (suānxìngyǔ)

• Czech: kyselý déšť m
• Danish: syreregn (da) c
• Dutch: zure regen
• Esperanto: acida pluvo (eo)
• Estonian: happesademed
• Faroese: sýruregn n
• Finnish: happosade (fi)
• French: pluie acide (fr) f
• Georgian: მჟავა წვიმა (mžava c̣vima), მჟავური წვიმა (mžavuri c̣vima)
• German: saurer Regen (de) m
• Greek: όξινη βροχή f (óxini vrochí)
• Hebrew: גשם חומצי (he)
• Hindi: अम्लीय वर्षा f (amlīya varṣā)
• Hungarian: savas eső (hu)
• Icelandic: súrt regn n
• Indonesian: hujan asam (id)
• Irish: báisteach aigéadach f
• Italian: pioggia acida f
• Japanese: 酸性雨 (ja) (sanseiu)
• Kazakh: қышқылды жаңбыр (qyşqyldy jañbyr)
• Kazakh: қышқылды жаңбыр (qyşqyldy jañbyr)
• Khmer: អាស៊ីតទឹកភ្លៀង (aasii tɑɑ tɨk pliəng)
• Korean: 산성비 (ko) (sanseongbi)
• Latvian: skābais lietus m
• Lithuanian: rūgštusis lietus m
• Luxembourgish: sauere Reen m
• Macedonian: кисел дожд m (kisel dožd)
• Malay: hujan asid
• Malayalam: അമ്ലമഴ (amlamaḻa)
• Maori: ua kawa
• Norwegian: sur nedbør
• Persian: باران اسیدی (fa) (bârân-e asidi)
• Polish: kwaśny deszcz (pl) m
• Portuguese: chuva ácida (pt) f
• Romanian: ploaie acidă f
• Russian: кисло́тный дождь (ru) m (kislótnyj doždʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: uisge-searbhaig m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ки̏села ки̏ша f

  Roman: kȉsela kȉša f

• Slovak: kyslý dážď m
• Slovene: kisli dež m
• Spanish: lluvia ácida (es) f
• Swedish: surt regn (sv) n
• Telugu: ఆమ్ల వర్షం (te) (āmla varṣaṁ)
• Thai: ฝนกรด (fŏn gròt)
• Turkish: asit yağmuru
• Ukrainian: кисло́тний дощ m (kyslótnyj došč)
• Vietnamese: mưa axit

Further reading

• acid rain on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Diracian, acridian, cnidaria