acid precipitation

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsacid rain

   Broaderair pollution

Questions about acid precipitation

What does acid precipitation mean?

acid precipitation means "rain containing acids that form in the atmosphere when industrial gas emissions (especially sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides) combine with water".

What is another word for acid precipitation?

Close synonyms include acid rain. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acid precipitation a common word?

acid precipitation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.