The acids deposited by transfer from the atmosphere either by
precipitation (rain,
fog, snow, etc.), called wet deposition, or by direct transfer to the surface of the
earth induced by the flow of acid-containing air masses over the earth's surface,
called dry deposition.
Source:
PAC, 1990, 62, 2167
(Glossary of atmospheric chemistry terms (Recommendations 1990))
on page 2170
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A. D. McNaught and A.Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997).
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