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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

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

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 Eyre, J. W. H. (John William Henry)

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

As soon as the desired color is obtained, the proofs are washed in acidified water and dried.

From Photographic Reproduction Processes by Duchochois, Peter C.

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

“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

It is generally best to administer the acidifying agent before the application of the lime, since this raises the acidity and permits a larger amount of the lime to be used.

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