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How is acid rain caused ?

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The fossil fuels like coal and petroleum/contain small amount of nitrogen and sulphur / when the fossil fuels are burnt / nitorgen and sulphur are burnt / and produces different oxides of nitrogen and sulphur when the oxides dissolve in rain it gives rise to acid rain.
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