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Acid rain is high up on the international agenda, this programme looks at the solutions that have been tried - all of which are flawed in some way.
Acid rain is high up on the international agenda, this programme looks at the solutions that have been tried - all of which are flawed in some way.
| Module code and title: | S247, Inorganic chemistry: concepts and case studies |
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| Item code: | S247; 13 |
| First transmission date: | 1981 |
| Published: | 1981 |
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| Duration: | 00:25:00 |
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| Producer: | Gail Block |
| Contributors: | Tim Allott; Susan Rae |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Air pollution; Coring studies in lakes; Electricity generation; Loch fleet; Nitrogen oxides; Sulphur dioxide; Water pollution |
| Subject terms: | Acid rain |
| Footage description: | Footage - People in village hall. United Nations. Dead lake. Trees affected by acid rain (0'06"-1'27") - Coal, chimneys, traffic, lake, sheep, cows, fores try plantation (2'14"-4'22") - Algae. Graphic of acidities of lakes. Photos of diatoms. Column of mud taken from lake (5'10"-8'01") - University of Liverpool. Radiometric dating. Graphic of radioactive isotopes in soil (8'02"-10'04") - 1950's nuclear testing. Newspaper headlines about nuclear testing, Chernobyl (10'05"-11'11") - Graph of pH of lakes & carbon particles. Industry prodcuing sulphur dioxide (11'27"-12'08") - Lake, bedrock, soil, impervious boulder clay. Limestone. Collection of samples of soil. Graphic of soil, ion exchange sites (13'05"-15'47") - Institute of Terrestrial Ecologies, Merlewood Laboratories. Ammonium acetate (15'57"-16'47") - William Waldegrave talking about acid rain on Newsnight 1984. Merlewood lab (17'12"-18'05") - Critical load maps of Britain (18'25"-18'57"). Photo of root damage (19'29"-19'46") - Helicopter distributing lime to Scottish loch. EC. Coal fired power station. Filtering of sulphur out of smoke. Sulphur. Flue gas desulphurisation plant. Imported coal. Gas fired power station. Electricity pylon. Graphic of coal pit closures. Coal pit. Miners. Coal. River (20'04"-23'37"). |
| Master spool number: | DOU7764 |
| Production number: | FOUS746P |
| Videofinder number: | 4687 |
| Available to public: | no |
