Science 4 JULY 2003 VOL 301 «Increase in the Export
of Alkalinity from North America's Largest River» Peter A. Raymond and Jonathan J. Cole offers a strong candidate for the «missing sink» in the form of surprisingly large riverine export of carbon, mostly mineralized.
The primary cause of that ubiquitous cough was the simple fact that the dust was highly basic, an enormous blast
of alkalinity from the drywall and cement that fell onto Lower Manhattan.
Not exact matches
Thus, these waters have naturally occurring high CO2 and low pH» [an acidity /
alkalinity scale; the lower the number the greater the acidity], says Derek Manzello, a biologist
from the University
of Miami and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, lead author
of the study appearing in Proceedings
of the National Academy
of Sciences USA.
These tools will help to better understand ongoing changes in chemical and biological state
of the North Sea
from alkalinity fluxes originating
from the Wadden Sea over a synthesis model that integrates OA sensitivities at organism level into a North Sea ecosystem model (5.1) to an economical impact assessment.
The two most common ways
of creating what is a false
alkalinity are use
of bicarbonates or drinking water
from machines that make alkaline water by chemically splitting water into a retained hydroxyl radical that is alkaline and an acid proton that is flushed away.
So this recipe is the perfect way to pump up the
alkalinity in your diet, with help
from one
of my biggest friends in the business, Kale.
Ricinoleic acid is also said to help balance scalp pH which can also help replenish the scalp's natural oils and undo some
of the damage
of harsh chemical hair products (and even damage
from no - poo, due to over
alkalinity).
Price made it clear that the alkaline diet idea had caused much suffering: «It is my belief that much harm has been done through the misconception that acidity and
alkalinity were something apart
from minerals and other elements... An illustration
of this is the following case: A girl was brought for assistance and study who still had her childhood face at sixteen years
of age.
Leaching
of calcium, magnesium, and aluminum
from the watersheds decreased while lake water pH and
alkalinity increased.
The term pH is a measure
of acidity or
alkalinity and ranges
from 0 to 14.
The actual pH
of seawater is fixed by any two relevant quantities and, as the
alkalinity is controlled by the input
of HC03 -
from weathering and the biogenic output
of CaC03 and the Pco, below the thin wind - mixed layer is controlled by oxidation, the pH is determined primarily by biological processes.
The planetary - boundaries group, which published a sort
of manifesto in 2009, argues for increased restraint and, where necessary, direct intervention aimed at bringing all sorts
of things in the Earth system,
from the
alkalinity of the oceans to the rate
of phosphate run - off
from the land, close to the conditions pertaining in the Holocene.
Time series
of alkalinity concentration in rivers
from Mississippi River (a)(data
from Raymond et al. 2008), Delaware River (b)(data
from Sharp 2010) and Swedish rivers (c)(data
from www.slu.se).