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ACIDIFICATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The process of becoming acid or being converted into an acid
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("acidification" is a kind of...):
action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))
Derivation:
acidify (turn acidic)
Context examples:
As a hypoxia-inducible transmembrane glycoprotein, CAIX catalyzes the rapid interconversion of carbon dioxide and water into carbonic acid, protons, and bicarbonate ions, helping to maintain acidification of the tumor microenvironment and enhance resistance to cytotoxic therapy in some hypoxic tumors.
(Methazolamide, NCI Thesaurus)
The increasing load of carbon dioxide in the ocean interior is already having an impact on the shellfish industry, particularly along the U.S. West Coast, said Richard Feely of NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, leader of NOAA’s West Coast acidification observing network and a co-author of the study.
(Global ocean is absorbing more carbon from fossil fuel emissions, NOAA)
If ocean acidification causes larvae to be attracted to irrelevant sounds, they could end up in the wrong habitat or in inhospitable places.
(Fish larvae lose their way to safety in acidified oceans, SciDev.Net)
Marine organisms in the Southern Ocean may find themselves between a rock and a hard place by the end of the century as ocean acidification creates a shallower zone for life.
(Marine organisms in Southern Ocean will face shallower zone for life, National Science Foundation)
The Southern Ocean is particularly vulnerable to acidification due to colder waters that increase the solubility of CO2 and upwelling that brings carbon-rich water close to the surface.
(Marine organisms in Southern Ocean will face shallower zone for life, National Science Foundation)
These calcifying organisms will struggle to build and maintain their shells as acidification proceeds.
(Marine organisms in Southern Ocean will face shallower zone for life, National Science Foundation)
The study used data from the Community Earth System Model (CESM) to forecast ocean acidification under several CO2 emission assumption scenarios, looking at changes in calcium carbonate saturation.
(Marine organisms in Southern Ocean will face shallower zone for life, National Science Foundation)
