acidify
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Sulfides also acidify the water, which can accelerate weathering.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2024
The first step uses electricity to temporarily acidify the water, which encourages the removal of CO2.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 27, 2023
Together with one of her Ph.D. supervisors, JCU marine biologist Philip Munday, Dixson pioneered research into the effects on fish of rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere, which cause the oceans to acidify.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 9, 2022
Likewise, coral reefs that help support the fishing and tourism industries are dying off in record amounts as oceans warm and acidify.
From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2020
To make acid; to convert into an acid; as, to acidify sugar.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
Unfortunately, as CO2 emissions increase, it acidifies the ocean, which can make it less hospitable for life.
From Salon ● May 21, 2025
Too much nitrogen acidifies the ground, which reduces the amount of nutrients for plants and trees.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
Kungfu Kitchen does Shanghai soup dumplings, too, paired with a black-vinegar-and-syrup dipping sauce, which fortifies and acidifies the delicate broth that explodes from the dough walls on the first bite.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2021
As often is the case in Peele’s work, comedy underlines the unease and acidifies into social critique, as when the nervous flyer approaches a couple of turbaned fellows who have not stowed their electronic devices.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 29, 2019
The way lignin acidifies and destroys paper was only really identified in the 1930s, so there are plenty of old watercolours you can get rid of.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 23, 2013
The seaweed grown in acidified water actually grew more, photosynthesized more effectively, and showed no significant increase in drag.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2023
Low oxygen levels, in addition to harming sea life, can disrupt food webs and even make marine water more acidified.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 27, 2021
Residents of Italy’s island of Sardinia have dealt in recent decades with groundwater contamination caused by acidified floodwaters laden with zinc, cadmium and lead draining from mines, including millennia-old Phoenician ones.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 4, 2021
PEA is known to warn mammals and sea creatures of predators and its effectiveness may be increased in an acidified ocean, researchers said.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2021
The filtrate is acidified with hydrochloric acid, and treated with sulphuretted hydrogen, warmed, rendered slightly alkaline with ammonia, and the gas again passed.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
Few countries are more exposed to climate change than Tuvalu, a chain of coral atolls reckoning with acidifying oceans, tropical disease and rising seas.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
The sea also absorbs carbon dioxide, acidifying the water, which breaks down essential minerals that organisms need to grow their shells and skeletons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2024
In the face of warming, acidifying oceans, coral skeletons are at risk of dissolving.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 7, 2024
Regardless of how well nations accomplish that, big lakes probably will continue acidifying as they absorb carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere, plus carbon-laden water runoff from land, she said.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2022
The bismuth is precipitated by the addition of ammonic carbonate, and the solution, after filtering and acidifying with nitric acid, is re-electrolysed.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
