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  1. Oct 2024
    1. Blue arrow shows the upper winds that travel from the west to the east or northeast. Winds travel from the mid-west to the northeast. In addition, a copper-nickel smelter in Sudbury, Ontario, just north of Lake Huron is the most significant sulfur oxide source in Canada. The winds may also carry the sulfur oxide clouds to the Northeast in the U.S. where it may be converted to acid rain.

      Interesting how acid rain transportation travels long distances through wind and eventually break down as acid precipitation. Though it leads to cross-border environmental damage, it proves to not only be a local issue but a regional and international concern that requires environmental policies and regulations to mitigate its widespread ecological and economic effects.

    1. If a magnetic field can create a current then we have a means of generating electricity. Experiments showed that a magnetic just sitting next to a wire produced no current flow through that wire. However, if the magnet is moving, a current is induced in the wire. The faster the magnet moves, the greater the induced current. This is the principal behind simple electric generators in which a wire loop is rotated between to stationary magnetics. This produces a continuously varying voltage which in turn produces an alternating current .

      Just shows the significant focal points of combating acid rain due the large-scale emissions of pollutants that cause our environmental issues.

    1. The pH levels in Little Moose lake are normally about 7.0. During the snow melting, in early March, the lake pH dropped to 6.0. An outlet stream from the lake reached a low pH of 4.8. A small brook nearby hit a low pH of 4.6 during the snow melt period. The average pH in this brook during the rest of the year is about 5.4.

      The fact that the pH levels just continued to decrease but in a dramatic way. Especially how it effected the aluminum concentrations.