Sentences with phrase «less alkaline»

Most people, however, are far from being alkaline and are extremely acidic due to eating more acidic foods and less alkaline foods.

Modern plankton foraminifera become inhibited below pH 7.6 - 7.8, thus only if some of these species recover their ability to grow in less alkaline, CO2 - rich waters, then there will be no problem over the centuries to come.

They are slightly less alkaline over the last 100 years or so.

What's worse is that these hormones and the free radicals are very acidic, which alters the blood and cellular chemistry to become less alkaline and more acidic.

If you have curly hair and an itchy or dry scalp that is prone to irritation, it is recommended that you use unrefined, hexane - free organic castor oil as it is less alkaline than JBCO.

But what we do know is that in the past, creatures in the ocean have survived and thrived under conditions that were less alkaline than those existing right now.

Barry said Everett was engaging in a game of semantics, adding that if the oceans are becoming less alkaline they are becoming more acidic.

There it reacts with water to form carbonic acid, reducing the pH level and making the oceans less alkaline.

The correct «scientific» term for any pH change toward zero is «less alkaline».

One of the main reasons that the surface layer is increasing in acidity (or more accurately, becoming less alkaline) is because the current increase in the rate of human - generated CO2 is overwhelming the ocean's ability to absorb it.

Ocean acidification describes the direction of pH change rather than the end point; that is, ocean pH is decreasing (the oceans are becoming less alkaline) but the oceans are not expected to become acidic (pH < 7).

But we are told that the warmer oceans, having been warmed by CO2, were now absorbing the extra CO2 so as to become less alkaline.

There's also the question of how the ocean's rather complex chemistry which includes a thing called «life» will respond to a less alkaline environment.