acid snow

Every scrap of edible plant meant more would survive the coming winter with its acid snow.

But the acid snow, though it didn*t blind the teams, still stung their eyes.

The parkas weren't impervious to the acid snow, but they had some resistant quality.

Acid snow, all right.

"More acid snow?"

Autumn in the mountain valley was approaching with its usual savagery, and soon the acid snows would descend, piling tall drifts of burning white crystals.

On the Harvard University campus, the curators of its turtle protect it against the "acid snow" by wrapping it with a waterproof cover for the winter.

Kyselý sníh (Acid Snow)

The feature film Acid Snow (1998) directed by Joel Itman is based on Mitchell's novel of the same name.

Acid Snow (Calamus Books, 1992)

Snow-wolf pelts were special-they were immune to acid snows, the result of a hundred years of genetic mutation after the nuke war.

Sulfur dioxide, produced mainly by burning coal, is the primary cause of acid rain and acid snow, which threaten the health of Adirondack forests and lakes.

As with other stone (particularly, marble and limestone) statuary, bixi turtles and their stelae are vulnerable to acid rain (or, in winter, acid snow).

The fifth layer, Porphatys, is a cold layer dominated by a shallow, acidic ocean, cut only by sand bars and drifts of semi-solid acid snow.

Her hypothesis is that a combination of several factors - be it ultraviolet radiation, acid snow or something yet unknown - creates a degree of sublethal stress sufficient to cause the cascading breakdown of the immune system.

As acid snow floated down from hazy Beijing skies, I sent my daughters off to school on Tuesday morning with a grimly cheerful parting - "Try not to breathe too much" - and then went online to catch up on the microblog battle for the hearts, minds and lungs of the capital.