Sentences with phrase «highly alkaline environment»

Persistent wounds tend to have a highly alkaline environment that isn't ideal for healing, so adding some Manuka can help to create an environment that promotes healing.

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Here, they demonstrate that the worms are averse to a very high pH by showing that the worms avoided areas of the experimental environment where the researchers created highly alkaline conditions.

In the following decades, similar extremophilic microorganisms have also discovered around the globe in some of the harshest terrestrial environments imaginable, from the boiling geysers of the Yellowstone National Park in the U.S. to the highly alkaline, acidic, and toxic waters of the Rio Tinto river in southwestern Spain to the Mono Lake in California, just to name a few.