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Name the two acids that are present in acid rain.

Sulphuric and nitric acids are the two acids present in acid rain. Oxides of nitrogen and Sulphur dioxide in the atmosphere react with water, oxygen and other chemicals and fall on earth as Sulphur and nitric oxides in the form of acid rain.


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