acid rains
acid rains is the plural of acid rain.
Meaning of acid rain
Noun
acid rain (countable and uncountable, plural acid rains)
- Rain which is unusually acidic (pH of less than the natural range of 5 to 6); caused mainly by atmospheric pollution with sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide and nitrogen compounds.
- Acid rain forms when water in the atmosphere condenses on particles containing acid-forming pollutants, such as sulfate produced by the burning of fossil fuels and nitrogen oxides from automobile exhausts.1987 January 20, “Airborne Pollutants”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Questions about acid rains
- What is acid rains the plural of?
- Acid rains is the plural of acid rain.
Words near acid rains in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: acid rains (page history and authors); acid rain (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “acid rains.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/acid_rains. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.