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Acid rain is one of the effects that Air Pollution (see) has on our planet, along with global warming and the ozone hole. They involve the fallout to the ground of acid substances (precipitation, particulate matter, aerosols, and gas). What is commonly known as “acid rain” should be more correctly defined as “acid deposition” or “acid precipitation.”
This issue can be distinguished in “wet deposition” (rain, snow, sleet, hail, fog, or dew) and “dry deposition” (dust or other acidifying microparticles, smoke, gases, or aerosols) not conveyed to the ground by precipitation, but by physical mechanisms and times that depend mainly by gravity and the characteristics of microparticles (size and weight).
In the particular case in which the particles of pollutants are wrapped inside the drops of fog or clouds and reach vegetation in this physical state, some authors call this phenomenon not “wet deposition” but “occult...
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Massari, S., Ruberti, M., Miglietta, P.P., De Leo, F. (2020). Acid Rain. In: Idowu, S., Schmidpeter, R., Capaldi, N., Zu, L., Del Baldo, M., Abreu, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02006-4_991-1
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