School Name: Sherwood Heights School
Team Size: 1 or 2
Grade Category: 4-6
ProjectType: Experimental
Subject Area: Environmental Issues
Language: English
Team Captain First Name: Robert
Team Captain Last Name: Fernandes
Awards Obtained: First Position in School Science Project
Special Skills Used: HTML, Flash
Project Title: It's Raining It's Pouring Corrosion is Forming
Project Abstract: The purpose of my project is to show the effects of acid rain on buildings. I think the acid rain will have the greatest effect on the brick.
The pH scale is used to measure the amount of acid in a liquid like water. The lower the number is the more acidic a liquid is. The acid rain has a pH range of 0-4. pH range of neutral is 5-7. pH range of 8-14 is basic.
Acidic and basic are two extremes that describe chemicals. A substance that is neither basic nor acidic is called neutral. Chemicals that are very acidic or very basic are called reactive. They can cause serve burns.
Acid rain is formed from burning fuels containing impurities. An example of how acid rain is created is gasoline use. Gasoline is burned to create heat and electricity in power stations to run the engines of our cars.
When gases escape into the atmosphere above a power plant or out of the cars exhaust pipe it combines with the clouds sulfuric dioxide and nitrogen oxides to transform into sulfuric acid and nitric acid.
Acid rain can be prevented by removing sulfur and nitrogen from fuel before or afterwards from hot gases as they come out.
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