时间:2019-01-02 作者:英语课 分类:知性英语


英语课

 
  How does acid deposition 1 affect human health?


  We eat food, drink water, and breathe air that has come in contact with acid deposition.


  Canadian and U.S. studies indicate that there is a link between this pollution and respirator problems in sensitive populations such as children and asthmatics.


  Acid deposition can increase the levels of toxic 2 metals such as aluminum 3, copper 4, and mercury in untreated drinking water supplies.


  What causes acid rain?


  Acid rain is rain, snow or fog that is polluted by acid in the atmosphere and damages the environment. Two common air pollutants 5 acidify rain: sulphur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxide 6 (NOX). When these substances are releasedsintosthe atmosphere, they can be carried over long distances by prevailing 7 winds and return to earth as acidic rain, snow, fog or dust. When the environment cannot neutralize 8 the acid being deposited, damage occurs.


 
  What does acid mean?


  Acid is a substance with a sour taste that will react with a base to form a salt. Acids turn blue litmus paper (also called pH paper) red. Strong acids can burn your skin.



n.免职,罢官;作证;沉淀;沉淀物
  • It was this issue which led to the deposition of the king.正是这件事导致了国王被废黜。
  • This leads to calcium deposition in the blood-vessels.这导致钙在血管中沉积。
adj.有毒的,因中毒引起的
  • The factory had accidentally released a quantity of toxic waste into the sea.这家工厂意外泄漏大量有毒废物到海中。
  • There is a risk that toxic chemicals might be blasted into the atmosphere.爆炸后有毒化学物质可能会进入大气层。
n.(aluminium)铝
  • The aluminum sheets cannot be too much thicker than 0.04 inches.铝板厚度不能超过0.04英寸。
  • During the launch phase,it would ride in a protective aluminum shell.在发射阶段,它盛在一只保护的铝壳里。
n.铜;铜币;铜器;adj.铜(制)的;(紫)铜色的
  • The students are asked to prove the purity of copper.要求学生们检验铜的纯度。
  • Copper is a good medium for the conduction of heat and electricity.铜是热和电的良导体。
污染物质(尤指工业废物)( pollutant的名词复数 )
  • Pollutants are constantly being released into the atmosphere. 污染物质正在不断地被排放到大气中去。
  • The 1987 Amendments limit 301(g) discharges to a few well-studied nonconventional pollutants. 1987年的修正案把第301条(g)的普通排放限制施加在一些认真研究过的几种非常规污染物上。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
n.氧化物
  • Oxide is usually seen in our daily life.在我们的日常生活中氧化物很常见。
  • How can you get rid of this oxide coating?你们该怎样除去这些氧化皮?
adj.盛行的;占优势的;主要的
  • She wears a fashionable hair style prevailing in the city.她的发型是这个城市流行的款式。
  • This reflects attitudes and values prevailing in society.这反映了社会上盛行的态度和价值观。
v.使失效、抵消,使中和
  • Nothing could neutralize its good effects.没有什么能抵消它所产生的好影响。
  • Acids neutralize alkalis and vice versa.酸能使碱中和碱,亦能使酸中和。
学英语单词
a footprint
acedronoles
acoustical attenuation measurement
acoustical properties of wood
adenylpyrophosphatase
antrophyum sessilifolium
ASR circuit
automatic acid-egg
Baker R.
bead and quirk
benzomethamine
burnt oil
Changjǒnman
circus acrobats
cold well
compact disc read-only memories
component frequency
coppil
Cross Fell
disaggregation
do not stow in damp place
drepanocladus uncinatus (hedw.) warnst
drosophila (sophophora) pulchrella
dry friction damper
ducht
dummy spit
eight-bar sentence
ellipsoid of wave normal
emergency seat
empennage down load
encloud
equatorial drift current
Fife Region
General Las Heras
genus symphytums
half wave antenna
hankle
hateleys
hellickson
incestuously
international monopoly combines
isopropyl
Kato Sounio
lessor apple-worm
leucomainaemia
lupus erythematosus test
make an honest woman out of someone
Mala, Pta.
marumerization
mastoidle
material purchase contrast
military post
minor sursery
mohe
moods index
multiplexing amplifier
naphthol
naval medicine
NAVMEDUNIT
New Zealand English
normal reduction potential
olympique
over-crowd
PC card
pear psylla
phanerosis
pivot monomial
prioral
Protade1
Pseudomonas smaragdina
put on the new man
ram efficiency
ram up core
relative speed
restitutionary damage
rhodophylaxis
scalene tubercle
sectorial harmonic function
set off against
similarity isomorphic
size-cumulative curve
slipped roll
statistical impulse withstand voltage
steil
store in
sulcus terminalis atrii dextri
superfacies
terlouw
throw someone off balance
thujetic acid
trademark act
type definition
tyrosine hydroxylase
uniformised
unwithering
user range error
weighted curve
Windach
wiper rolls
you have me there
Zacharias