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SMITH, Robert Angus (1817 – 1884)

1817 – 1884

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1872 CE

#8972

Air and rain. The beginnings of a chemical climatology.

In this work on the industrial causes of pollution Smith coined the term acid rain. "The corrosive effect of polluted, acidic city air on limestone and marble was noted in the 17th century by John Evelyn, who remarked…