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
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
Separation of Nickel and Cobalt.—Dissolve the sulphides separated as above in nitric acid; render alkaline with a solution of potash, then acidify with acetic acid; add a concentrated solution of nitrite of potash.
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
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
One version, ASC1, was acidified with hydrochloric acid, while ASC2 used gluconic acid.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2026
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
The alkaline solution and washings were acidified and distilled from 10 p.ct.
From Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 by C. F. Cross
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
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
The threats, the killers, are legion: Warming streams, dammed rivers, an acidifying ocean, impassable culverts, toxins in every tire on every car, stormwater runoff, watersheds choked by sprawl, vanishing floodplains, armored shorelines, abundant sea lions.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2023
Notes The free sulfinic acid may be prepared by dissolving the sodium salt in cold water and carefully acidifying the solution with hydrochloric acid.
From Organic Syntheses by James Bryant Conant
