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Acid Rain
Acid rain is a great problem in our world. It not only causes fish
and plants to die in the waters it contaminates, but adversely affects the
entire food chain. Acid rain is all the rain and snow that contains an
unnatural acidic. Often times, the chemicals used to create today's
industrial products are not properly tr ....
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.... further up the river. Divers
were sent in to examine the bottom of the rivers. where they found many
more dead fish. Many live and dead specimens were taken back to labs across
Norway. When the live specimens were examined they were found to have very
little sodium in their blood. This is typical a typical symptom of acid
poisoning. The acid had entered the gills of the fish and poisoned them so
that they were unable to extract salt from the water to maintain their
bodies sodium levels.
By the late 1970s, though, many Norwegian scientists began to
suspect that it was not only th ....
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