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Explain how nitrogen oxides released into the atmosphere can lead to the formation of a secondary pollutant that can lead to acid deposition.

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Nitrogen oxides react with oxygen and rainwater to form nitric acid a secondary pollutant which dissolves in water droplets forming acid rain.

What is a secondary pollutant?

A secondary pollutant is a pollutant which results from changes that occur in an initial pollutant known as the primary pollutants.

Pollutants pose dangers to plant and animals found in a given environment.

The primary pollutant, nitrogen oxides, which are released into the atmosphere from industrial and vehicular smoke can be changed into a secondary pollutant.

Nitrogen oxides react with oxygen and rain to form nitric acid a secondary pollutant.

Nitric acid (HNO3) then enter the environment through the ground as droplets in rain forming acid rain.

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