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Sulfides also acidify the water, which can accelerate weathering.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2024

But other scientists say even those could acidify because their outflow will slow as atmospheric concentrations surge.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2022

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

Meanwhile, a growing shipping fleet continues to introduce noise and collide with large whales, persistent pollutants accumulate in the food web, the ocean acidifies, etc.; the list goes on.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 31, 2020

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

Filled with iron ore and other heavy metals, the sludge acidifies waterways, kills fish and aquatic plants, and, if ingested, can be dangerous or fatal for humans.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 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

If nearby ski areas have to rely on more intensely mineralized and acidified water to make artificial snow, that could compound the problem, McKnight adds.

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

For the alkali salts in neutral or alkaline solution wool and silk have little or no affinity, but dyeing rapidly occurs if the solution is acidified with sulphuric acid whereby the colour-acid is liberated.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various

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

Marine heat waves, acidifying oceans and other climate impacts are “significantly altering U.S. marine ecosystems at a pace, magnitude and extent that is unprecedented over millennia,” the report says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2023

The threats, the killers, are legion: Warming streams, dammed rivers, an acidifying ocean, impassable culverts, toxins in every tire on every car, stormwater runoff, watersheds choked by sprawl, vanishing floodplains, armored shorelines, abundant sea lions.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2023

In the acidifying of any cane juice, care must be exercised that too high an acidity is not reached, since acids have an inverting effect upon sucrose, thus causing a noticeable loss.

From The Philippine Agricultural Review Vol. VIII, First Quarter, 1915 No. 1 by Various