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acidify

[uh-sid-uh-fahy] / əˈsɪd əˌfaɪ /






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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

It is a process in which beneficial bacteria, yeasts, or other microorganisms break down and acidify food, transforming and preserving it.

From Salon Aug. 29, 2022

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

Evaporate to a thin syrup, acidify strongly with phosphoric acid.

From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by J. W. H. (John William Henry) Eyre

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

In general, the acidified seaweed broke more easily and died more often.

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

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

It may have also acidified Earth's oceans after its impact, according to a study published in October 2019.

From Fox News Jan. 17, 2020

Filter, and wash the precipitate with water acidified with sulphuric acid.

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

It is not pleasant to imagine that human activity is making the planet uninhabitable, but we typically think of this in terms of greenhouse gases, rising sea levels or acidifying the oceans.

From Salon Oct. 31, 2023

These plantations can also directly degrade ecosystems by reducing stream flow, depleting groundwater, and acidifying soils.

From Science Daily Oct. 3, 2023

The conception of an acidifying principle, although that principle was identified with a known element, was still tainted with the vices of the alchemical school.

From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir




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