Acid Rain Increased In Cuban

Havana, TimeIsNews.com - Some Cuban scientist monitoring the environmental pollution, Monday (7 / 6), says there is a rise in acid rain in the country.

The experts from the Center for Pollution and Atmospheric Chemistry (CECONT), as quoted by Granma daily, found that 25 percent of annual rainfall levels in the country containing a low acidity, medium and high.

Osvaldo Cuesta Santos, president CECONT, emphasized the importance and necessity of monitoring the increase in acid rain. Cuesta express high levels of rain acidity in Cuba caused by air mass capable of transporting pollutants to a place far from the geographical area where the material that causes pollution originated and the increase in sulphate and nitrate waste local.

Based on the provincial category, acid rain is more common in metallurgical-mining areas in the north, Holguin, Pinares in Mayari and Nuevitas. Acid rain, which include dew, hail, fog and snow, which contains the PH is below 5.5.

This phenomenon occurs when moisture from the air reacts with nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides, released by burning fuels and other activities fosir industry. Through interaction with water vapor, all the gas to form sulfuric and nitric acid, which precipitates in the atmosphere.