Acid Precipitation

  

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Acid Precipitation

Definition: Acid Precipitation

Acid Precipitation

Noun

1. Rain containing acids that form in the atmosphere when industrial gas emissions (especially sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides) combine with water.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Acid Precipitation

Synonym: acid rain (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Acid Precipitation

Specialty definitions using "acid precipitation": Acid deposition / acid rain, ammonium-sulfate operatorboric acid precipitationcontact processEXTRACTOR-AND-WRINGER OPERATORfield-laboratory operatorION-EXCHANGE OPERATORNAPAPSATURATOR OPERATOR, SLIME-PLANT OPERATOR I, sulfate operator. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Acid Precipitation

DomainTitle

Books

  • Effects of Acid Precipitation on Terrestrial Ecosystems (NATO Conference Series: I, Ecology, V. 4) (reference)

  • Geological Aspects of Acid Deposition (Acid Precipitation Series, Vol 7) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: Acid Precipitation

Expression using "acid precipitation": boric acid precipitation. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Acid Precipitation

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

acid precipitation

32
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Acid Precipitation

Language Translations for "acid precipitation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

précipitation d'acide borique (boric acid precipitation). (various references)

   

German

  

Borsaeureausfaellung (boric acid precipitation). (various references)

   

Italian

  

Precipitazione dell'acido borico (boric acid precipitation). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aciday ecipitationpray

   

Portuguese

  

precipitação de ácido bórico (boric acid precipitation). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

precipitación del ácido bórico (boric acid precipitation). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Acid Precipitation

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-e-i-i-i-i-n-o-p-p-r-t-t"

-4 letters: accreditation, participation, precipitation.

-5 letters: antiperiodic, appreciation, catadioptric, decapitation, participated, pediatrician, ratiocinated.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Acid Precipitation


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 63 69 64      50 72 65 63 69 70 69 74 61 74 69 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01100011 01101001 01100100 00100000 01010000 01110010 01100101 01100011 01101001 01110000 01101001 01110100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#99 &#105 &#100 &#32 &#80 &#114 &#101 &#99 &#105 &#112 &#105 &#116 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0063 0069 0064      0050 0072 0065 0063 0069 0070 0069 0074 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35697570250847169758275866786758180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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