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Sulfides also acidify the water, which can accelerate weathering.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2024

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

It’s helped acidify the soil for plants that need it.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 2020

V. be sour; sour, turn sour &c. adj.; set the teeth on edge. render sour &c. adj.; acidify, acidulate.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

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

For example, the U.S. regulated industrial sulfur and nitrogen dioxide emissions in 1990, but only after we had determined that they caused acid rain and acidified many water bodies in the Northeast.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 2, 2024

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

B. caustic soda solution is prepared and added slowly to the acidified oil with constant stirring.

From Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. by E. G. Thomssen

Few countries are more exposed to climate change than Tuvalu in the South Pacific, an atoll chain reckoning with rising seas, acidifying oceans and outbreaks of tropical disease.

From Barron's ● Oct. 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

“Listen, my state is burning up. We’re losing our snowpack, the ocean’s acidifying, affecting our shellfish,” he said Saturday.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2021

Because this air is essential to the formation of acids, it has been called by chemists the acidifying principle, or oxygen gas.

From Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease by Thomas Garnett