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brad@slammer.UUCP (Brad Isley) writes:

>In article <63637@hydra.gatech.EDU> bob@comlab.gatech.edu (Bob Baggerman) writes:
>>Just out of curiosity, how do you know it was acid rain?  What chemicals 

>I don't.  My car is always well away from any industry.  I noticed the damage
>to the paint a couple of months ago in the form of several raindrop shaped
>etchings.  Now there are LOTS of them and getting deeper.  I have NEVER seen
>damage like this on auto paint.  I have heard that acid rain does this.

Let's think here...what is acid rain?  It is acidic water!  If it fell
from the sky and landed on your car, ruining the paint *as it hit* 
creating the rain drop shaped spots nearly immediately don't you think
a number of other symptoms would have appeared such as people with
burns on their skin, ruined clothes, etc.  There are any number of
materials which would be ruined before your car paint.

From experience in Georgia I would lean toward Bob's tree sap explanation.
Think about it!  Sap sticks where it falls....

Robert
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