Sentences with phrase «acidic water»

Animals able to survive and reproduce in more acidic waters are likely to become smaller, potentially affecting the food chain that relies on them.

This change may happen because the fish have to use energy to get rid of acidic water, rather than to grow.

How such vast bodies of highly acidic water could have formed is a mystery.

The scientists don't know why more acidic water changes the behavior of the fish.

Moreover, mildly acidic water conditions in the open state were lower than the recommended limits for aquatic life.

That would have caused a sharp and rapid drop in pH. The more acidic water would have dissolved the calcium - based mineral that makes up sea shells.

They have shown sensitivity to lower pH, and pockets of acidic water are beginning to show up in their habitats.

These preparation techniques include roasting, long soaking of beans following by cooking, soaking grains in slightly acidic water, followed by cooking, and fermenting bread dough to make sourdough bread.

New research has revealed that more acidic waters as a result of climate change can throw fishes» survival instincts out of whack, and can sometimes even cause them to swim towards predators.

They incubated fragments of the meteorite in acidic water collected from volcanic ponds in Iceland, thought to be chemically similar to the water on primordial Earth.

Meanwhile, Jill Banfield of the University of California, Berkeley, and her colleagues used similar sequencing methods to stitch together the genomes of microbes in highly acidic water from an abandoned California gold mine.

However, the more acidic waters did impair the snails» escape response.

But Simpson and his colleagues don't believe that the more acidic water made the fish go deaf.

Filling our bodies with acidic water is giving us an environment in which diseases love to live in.

Increasingly acidic waters due to buildup of atmospheric carbon dioxide is diminishing Great Barrier Reef corals, robbing sharks of their predatory senses, and hindering sea stars and other calcifiers in their ability to store calcium carbonate, which is crucial in forming their protective skeletons.

One of the hypotheses involves having acidic water carry away other elements from the rocks and leaving only the silica deposits behind.

Numerous caves, gorges, sinkholes, and other natural formations have been formed by the action of acidic water on limestone deposits.

By 2008, harvests at one local hatchery declined by about 80 percent because acidic waters and a lack of carbonate essentially made it impossible for baby oysters to form their shells.

Cross says that as the oceans absorb more carbon dioxide, the more acidic the water becomes, which hurts marine life and makes it harder for organisms to grow skeletons and build shells.

«Ocean acidification affects predator - prey response: Acidic waters dull snails» ability to escape from predatory sea stars.»

The Great Barrier Reef will continue to degrade, with warmer and more acidic water bleaching more coral, and greater stress coming from factors like agricultural run - off.

«About 4 million cubic feet of phosphogypsum and an undetermined amount of acidic water disappeared through that shaft into the ground,» says Ann Tihansky, a scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey.

Mineral - laden acidic water flows through sulfur - rich rocks.

Waters with a reduced pH are expected to dissolve coral skeletons — but in Palau in the western Pacific Ocean, researchers have found reefs that are bigger and more diverse in relatively acidic waters than the Pacific average.

The waters probed during this study, known as the California Current, are a hot spot of ocean acidification because of coastal upwelling, which brings naturally acidic waters to the surface, where they are made even more acidic by greenhouse gas pollution.

In general, they found that the crabs in the more acidic water tended to flick their antennae less often, and were slower to sniff out food.

Ancient lakes across a huge portion of the western United States may have been so acidic their waters would have dissolved a person's skin.

Hot acidic water coursed through the flanks of the volcano during its last major eruptive era about 200,000 years ago, creating deep networks of crumbly rock and weak clays, some of which lie under thick shields of hardened lava.

This means that dissolved organic matter and sulfur enhance methylation, as do acidic waters such as those in the Northeast.

Acidic water reached the shale layer by percolating through the overlying limestone, the researchers suggest, aided by cracks created by mining operations.

However, as the urchins in the more acidic water grew older, certain alleles — different versions of genes — became more common.

This experiment shows that acidic water hurts coral reefs, but that coral might survive and regrow if conditions improve.

We're talking alkaline water, you really don't want to drink acidic water.

The alkalizer is separating the water into acidic water that can be used to water plants or wash dishes and the alkaline water for drinking.

We use alkaline water for drinking and food preparation and acidic water for washing the skin, vegetables and dishes.

Caves form as the limestone is slowly dissolved by weakly acidic water, such as rain water, but this is not just evident below ground.

Survival of mussels in extremely acidic waters on a submarine volcano.

More acidic water means that carbonate ions become scarcer.

Already exhibiting detrimental effects are the oyster Crassostrea gigas (Barton et al., 2012; Gazeau et al., 2011) in the US Pacific Northwest, where warmer, more acidic waters cause the oyster eggs to die after a few days of apparently normal development.

But the clownfish in more acidic water showed no preference for moving away from the threatening sound, while those exposed to normal levels of acidity move away from the perceived danger source.

To use the test, a technician rinses the paper with slightly acidic water, removing the protective crystals and exposing the protein mounted on the nanorods.

«More acidic waters make it difficult for corals and other calcifying organisms, such as animals with shells, to form their skeletons, which are ultimately responsible for building the physical structure of the reef,» says Australian Institute of Marine Science research scientist, Dr Janice Lough.»

Filling our bodies with acidic water is giving us an environment in which diseases love to live in.