acidic

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The ocean is rapidly becoming more acidic, which is a huge threat to ocean life.

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  1. adjective Acid.
  2. adjective Tending to form an acid.

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  • Maintenance should be told -- that's policy -- but Maintenance means slow solutions and acidic, accusing questions. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 02 - February 2000
  • His guilt pours forth in a searing flood -- acidic strands of cabbage, caustic lumps of potato, glutinous strings of bile. —  F ;SF; - vol 099 issue 04-05 - October-November 2000
  • In my science fiction novel The Rise of Endymion I have a world where the lower atmosphere is poisonous and acidic, and the human colonists must live on the hundreds of high peaks and ridgelines and pinnacles rising above the deadly soup. —  WorldsEnough ;Time
  • "As this carbon is absorbed, the oceans will become more acidic, which is seriously damaging a wide range of marine life from corals to plankton communities and from lobsters to seagrasses." —  Fiji Times Online - Local News
  • Carbon-dioxide emissions are threatening marine life and human food supplies by making the oceans more acidic, an international group of scientists says. —  EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed
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