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acidify

[uh-sid-uh-fahy] / əˈsɪd əˌfaɪ /






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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

When the development of hydrogen ceases, it is necessary to filter warm through a paper filter, and acidify filtrate with a few drops of HCl.

From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by Sanford, P. Gerald (Percy Gerald)

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

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

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

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

In the face of warming, acidifying oceans, coral skeletons are at risk of dissolving.

From Science Daily Mar. 7, 2024

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

It is not pleasant to imagine that human activity is making the planet uninhabitable, but we typically think of this in terms of greenhouse gases, rising sea levels or acidifying the oceans.

From Salon Oct. 31, 2023

These show that, for the production of a characteristic keffir, specific organisms are not essential, provided always that those used possess, either individually or collectively, the essential capacity of acidifying, coagulating, and fermenting the milk.

From The Bacillus of Long Life a manual of the preparation and souring of milk for dietary purposes, together with and historical account of the use of fermente by Douglas, Loudon




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