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ACID WATER [2 records]

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Record 1 2001-02-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
  • Geochemistry
DEF

Water charged naturally with carbon dioxide [or] natural waters containing sulfur compounds, especially sulfates.

CONT

These rocks ... are mineralized due to the circulation of hot acidic water derived from both the surrounding groundwater aquifers and emanations from the magma chamber ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
  • Géochimie
CONT

[...] les eaux acides sont mélangées [...] aux effluents précédents et passent dans un poste général de neutralisation à la chaux.

CONT

[...] à cette époque [précambrienne] des débuts de la croûte terrestre, les eaux acides dissolvaient les composants ferrugineux des roches primitives et les entraînaient dans des lagunes [...]

CONT

Quant aux minéraux essentiels des roches sédimentaires communs aux roches métamorphiques, [...] la plupart d'entre eux passent en dissolution dans l'eau naturelle, acide ou basique [...]

Spanish

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Record 2 2001-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Pollution
  • Water Pollution
DEF

... natural waters containing sulfur compounds, especially sulfates.

CONT

For example, a light acid rain may be fully neutralized while the runoff during a heavy rain on the same watershed will not have time to be neutralized so a "pulse" of acidic water will move down the stream and into the lake.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pollution de l'air
  • Pollution de l'eau
CONT

Les ions métalliques qui se retrouvent dans l'eau peuvent avoir des conséquences sur la santé humaine. En Suède, des cas de diarrhée seraient dues à l'ingestion d'eau acide ayant une forte concentration en Cu++. De plus, les poissons peuvent concentrer les ions mercure et leur consommation pourrait, de ce fait, être dangereuse.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Contaminación del aire
  • Contaminación del agua
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