acidification
IPA: ʌsɪdʌfʌkˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The act or process of making something sour (acidifying), or changing into an acid.
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Examples of "acidification" in Sentences
- This process is known as ocean acidification.
- C, followed by acidification with strong acid.
- Diatom analysis and the acidification of lakes.
- Emissions of chemicals leading to acidification.
- The intermediate in the acidification, is a stable anion.
- There is currently no article on Freshwater acidification.
- After acidification he was able to distill the formed OsO4.
- The acidification plays two roles in the lifespan of the toxin.
- Anthropogenic eutrophication, acidification and climatic change.
- For this reason, the lake is not very susceptible to acidification.
- Scientists call acidification of the oceans the hidden partner of climate change.
- Predicting the long-term acidification trends in small subarctic lakes using diatoms.
- Some researchers have called acidification one of the most critical anthropogenic Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis by Al Gore
- Ocean acidification is happening about ten times faster today than it did 55 million years ago, when it preceded the mass extinction of much of the planet’s marine life.
- Over-fishing, now, and the long-term acidification of the oceans due to carbon dioxide, are far more serious problems ... or I should say, are serious problems, because whaling isn't one.
- Whatever the solution is, whether it’s cutting emissions, building solar plants, or geoengineering the ocean, if we don’t do something soon, the problem of ocean acidification is going to get worse.
- March 31st, 2010 WASHINGTON - Scientists have warned that ocean acidification, which is dubbed the 'evil twin of global warming', caused by a rise in human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), threatens the world's oceans.
- These astonishingly well-preserved bones belong to an entirely new species of human ancestor who lived nearly two million years ago - and may have bridged the gap between ocean acidification, which is dubbed the 'evil twin of global warming', caused by a rise in human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), threatens the world's oceans.
- Mr. LEISEROWITZ: Yeah, this is one of the most surprising things to me, is that we found that only 25 percent of the public, so it's one in four Americans, have ever heard of coral bleaching or ocean acidification, which is the newest concern that's being raised about climate change, because of course the oceans are absorbing a lot of the CO2 that are being pumped into them through the burning of fossil fuels.