acidify
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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
Extract with water, acidify with acetic acid, and estimate volumetrically as described under Sulphur.
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
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
In general, the acidified seaweed broke more easily and died more often.
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
The assay solution may be acidified with acetic, sulphuric, or hydrochloric acid before titrating with "hypo;" but it must be only faintly so.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
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
The bismuth is precipitated by the addition of ammonic carbonate, and the solution, after filtering and acidifying with nitric acid, is re-electrolysed.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
