10 Feb
2002
10 Feb
'02
2:15 p.m.
On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Russ Blakeman wrote:
Same stuff that combines in the atmosphere (clouds) to
form rain made of
sulfuric acid - acid rain.
That's sulfurous acid. Sulfuric acid is formed from Sulfur Trioxide. The
formations are given below.
Sulfurous Acid
SO2 + H2O -> H2SO3
Sulfuric Acid
SO3 + H20 -> H2SO4
Sulfuric acid is much more dangerous than sulfurous acid. Remember,
Johnny was a chemistry student, now Johnny is no more. For what he
thought was H2O, was H2SO4.
Peace... Sridhar