Experimental evidence indicates that all final concentrations are influenced by surface adsorption of silicic acid. Thus, the true solubility, in the sense of a saturated concentration of silicic acid ...

Gene Likens, the 90-year-old scientist who discovered acid rain in North America in the 1960s, has warned that if rules curbing toxic pollution from power plants, cars, and trucks are scaled back, ...

You can’t always see it but plastic is everywhere. So much so that it’s now in our rain and it’s there because of humans. It’s almost as worrisome as acid rain was in the 1970s – an issue that is no ...

School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia, School of Chemistry, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia, Bio21 Institute ...