Sentences with phrase «acidic waters such»
This means that dissolved organic matter and sulfur enhance methylation, as do acidic waters such as those in the Northeast.
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Editor's Note: Couscous should be soaked overnight or at least 8 hours in warm filtered water (enough to cover) along with an acidic medium such as lemon juice, vinegar or whey (approx 1 - 2 Tbsp).
Most studies have concluded that sea animals with calcified shells or skeletons, such as starfish, will suffer as carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels dissolves in the sea, making the water more acidic and destroying the calcium carbonate on which the creatures depend.
Although carbon capture and storage has attracted a growing number of advocates, including environmental groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council, it has also attracted its fair share of detractors, such as Greenpeace, and skeptics including the U.S. Geological Survey's Yousif Kharaka (pdf), who has shown that leaking CO2 can make surrounding water acidic, mix with brine and leach metals, and pose potential health risks to people and wildlife.
Many researchers worry that acidification will make life harder for some shell - building marine organisms such as clams, crabs, and shrimp; more - acidic water could corrode the creatures» shells, or make it harder to build them in the first place.
How such vast bodies of highly acidic water could have formed is a mystery.
This acidic water then leaches heavy metals — such as zinc, lead and cadmium — from the ground.
«Also, we feel that if we can understand how fish coped with low - oxygen, high CO2, acidic waters in the past, it will give us some insight into how they might cope with man - made climate change which appears to be giving rise to such conditions again,» Dr Rummer says.
«We found that exposing particles to sunlight makes the particles increasingly more oxidized and acidic, which in turn makes it easier for such particles to nucleate water and make cloud droplets,» said Professor Sergey Nizkorodov, a physical chemist at UCI who led the study.
Sometimes, when an air pollutant, such as sulfuric acid combines with the water droplets that make up clouds, the water droplets become acidic, forming acid rain.
But you can get flavor in a less acidic form by adding a slice of lemon or lime (or other fruits, vegetables or herbs, such as cucumber, mint or basil) to plain sparkling water.
Water forms the base with small amounts of an acidic medium such as lemon juice or cider vinegar.
I have read that an acidic supplement, such as cranberry, helps to maintain a healthy urinary tract system, & wondered if apple cider vinegar remains acidic when ingested (diluted in hot water)
Studies suggest that cooking food in aluminum foil, especially acidic foods, at high temperatures in the oven may carry a risk to the health by adding to other aluminum sources (such as pots, utensils, spices and drinking water).
Caves form as the limestone is slowly dissolved by weakly acidic water, such as rain water, but this is not just evident below ground.
Many studies have demonstrated the risks that ocean acidification pose to marine organisms, such as coral dissolving in more acidic water.6 However, new findings suggest that the August and September time period could be particularly challenging for the earliest life stage of elkhorn coral — an important reef - forming coral of the Caribbean — if we continue on a path of high carbon dioxide emissions.5 Ordinarily each August or September elkhorn corals flood the water with eggs and sperm (gametes) for sexual reproduction.2
So fishing communities in southern New England, the Pacific Northwest, coastal Alaska and parts of Maine, for example, will likely take a big hit as valuable mollusks such as oysters and clams start feeling the effects of more acidic waters.
«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.»
Acid rain develops when compounds like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides released into the atmosphere combine with water and oxygen to form acidic pollutants such as sulfuric acid (EPA, 2012).