acidify

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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

This may be inferred from the fact that, according to the advocates of these medicines, it is always difficult, and is often impossible, to acidify the stools in cholera.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various