Word: acidic
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While aluminum pots may have been ruled out as the source of the unusually high concentrations of aluminum in Alzheimer's disease victims, researchers are now exploring another possible cause: that is, a link between acid rain and Alzheimer's disease. There is no question that acid rain contributes to the toxic levels of free aluminum in our environment and is detrimental to plants and wildlife. Consequently, it must be asked: Is the high aluminum concentration in the brains of Alzheimer's victims the result of the disease? Or could the illness be caused by the high...
Blame for Acid Rain...
...member of the National Academy of Sciences committee that prepared the recent study on acid rain, I am concerned that your story [July 11] has misinterpreted our report. You implied that we concluded that reducing emissions of sulfur dioxide from plants in the Midwest would significantly reduce acid rain in the Northeast. Our report did not say this. While there is a link between sulfur dioxide emissions over the eastern U.S. and acid rain over the same region, the contribution of Midwestern sources to acid rain in the Northeast remains unknown...
...gesture that caught all the environmental fervor so characteristic of West Germany's Green Party. Minutes after Helmut Kohl had been elected Chancellor last March, Marieluise Beck-Oberdorf, 31, a new Green deputy, handed him a branch from a fir tree that had been exposed to acid rain. With that impulsive act, Beck-Oberdorf breached her idealistic party's agreement against any individual initiative. For her transgression, she was castigated so harshly by her parliamentary colleagues that she burst into tears...
High-technology entrepreneurs like to boast that their business is nonpolluting and environmentally sound. But every industry carries environmental risks, and electronics is no exception. The manufacture of computer chips, for example, requires acid baths (to etch microscopic circuits onto tiny ceramic wafers) and vats of industrial cleaning fluids (to wash away extraneous specks). And where there are powerful chemicals, waste-storage difficulties are not far behind...