Noun
acid rain (countable and uncountable, plural acid rains)
- 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, →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 (th) (fŏn gròt)
- Turkish: asit yağmuru
- Ukrainian: кисло́тний дощ m (kyslótnyj došč)
- Vietnamese: mưa axit
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