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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

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

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 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

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

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

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

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

After the greater portion of the alcohol has distilled off, the solution is acidified with sulphuric acid and the azoimide distilled over.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" 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

It's well established that rising global temperatures, driven by the burning of fossil fuels, are making dramatic changes to our oceans, from increasing sea levels and intensifying storms to acidifying the water itself.

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2023

On acidifying with sulphuric acid and distilling, traces only of volatile acid were produced.

From Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 by C. F. Cross