acidify
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Sulfides also acidify the water, which can accelerate weathering.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2024
Look to nursery shelves for products that will acidify the soil and blue your blooms.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2023
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
Boil off the gas, add ammonia until a precipitate is formed, and then acidify somewhat strongly with acetic acid.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
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
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
By this plan of working more even dyeings can be obtained than by simply entering the goods direct into an acidified dye-liquor.
From The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics by Franklin Beech
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
These plantations can also directly degrade ecosystems by reducing stream flow, depleting groundwater, and acidifying soils.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2023
Yes, in “Blue Skies” the planet’s shine appears to be dimming — its resources depleted, its heat-trapping gases turning forests to dust and acidifying the oceans.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2023
Addressing alkaline soil requires products like sphagnum peat, elemental sulfur, aluminum sulfate, iron sulfate, acidifying nitrogen, and organic mulches, according to Grove Collaborative.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2022
In spite of the low temperature the coupling proceeds quickly and the sparingly soluble product can in most cases be precipitated from the solution by acidifying and diluting with water.
From Synthetic Tannins by Georg Grasser
