How to Use acidify in a Sentence

acidify

verb

• Pollution caused the soil to acidify.
• And a lot of foods are acidified to have a longer shelf life.
  — Naseem S. Miller, OrlandoSentinel.com, 30 May 2018
• Sea levels have risen about a foot and oceans have acidified.
  — Brian Kahn, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2017
• One group of those early colonists begins to acidify the starter.
  — Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• Iron and metal nails can acidify and seep into the wood, which can swell with water if not eaten away.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 13 Feb. 2023
• Many hydrangeas turn blue if the soil is acidified, as many gardeners know.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 28 July 2017
• Adding acidifying elements will do no harm, but to be sure they are needed, run a soil test.
  — Kathy Huber, Houston Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2018
• Vinegar over time can seriously acidify the soil for all the plants, so a lot depends on how often and how strong.
  — oregonlive.com, 28 June 2019
• Large conifer trees cast shade, acidify the soil and spread incredibly dense root systems across the landscape.
  — Colin McCrate, The Seattle Times, 20 Feb. 2019
• The planet is warming, the oceans are acidifying, the Amazon is burning down, and plastic is snowing on the Arctic.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 6 Sep. 2019
• Climate change, which has made the Antarctic one of the fastest changing places on Earth, has inspired studies of shifting ice and acidifying seas.
  — Eli Kintisch, Science | AAAS, 19 Mar. 2020
• These products do have some acidifying effect but usually not enough to make a major change in the soil.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 12 May 2018
• Last year our smokestacks and tailpipes puffed out more than 60 trillion pounds of the greenhouse gas, monkeying with the planet’s climate and acidifying the oceans.
  — NBC News, 1 Nov. 2017
• For example, as the oceans acidified, creatures like the foraminifera, which constructed their shells of carbon, would have struggled to survive.
  — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
• And researchers detailed evidence found in Europe that the Chicxulub event acidified the ocean in a flash, extinguishing much of Earth’s ocean life at the time.
  — New York Times, 30 Dec. 2019
• Oceans acidified and heated up to the temperature of bathtubs.
  — Rachel E. Gross, Smithsonian, 16 Apr. 2018
• Yes, and fish, because fish stocks are plummeting because the ocean is becoming acidified and the climate is warming.
  — Glamour, 12 Nov. 2019
• Organic matter will lower the pH (that is, acidify it) and hold moisture and nutrients in sandy soil, or break up claylike soil.
  — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 14 Feb. 2018
• Acidifying oceans are causing the reef’s skeleton—a key habitat for fish—to break down rapidly, according to new science.
  — National Geographic, 2 May 2016
• According to a study published in October, the asteroid, which hit Earth and wiped out nearly 75 percent of all species on the planet, may have acidified Earth's oceans.
  — Fox News, 18 Dec. 2019
• Other federal researchers have found that ocean waters off the West Coast are acidifying at twice the rate of global average.
  — oregonlive, 24 Jan. 2020
• But even as seas are rising, coral reefs around the world have been suffering from severe bleaching events, and are also weakened further by acidifying oceans.
  — Chris Mooney, Brady Dennis, Philly.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• The role of glycolysis is to acidify the curd or cheese, which produces many downstream effects including the regulation of flavor, texture, and melting point of the cheese.
  — Ashton Yoon, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2017
• And climate change is warming and acidifying the oceans, threatening to annihilate coral reefs.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 14 Jan. 2020
• The Pacific Ocean off the West Coast is acidifying at twice the rate of the rest of the world’s oceans, according to researchers, with potentially catastrophic effects on shellfisheries.
  — oregonlive, 17 Dec. 2019
• Both kinds of nitrogen react to form aerosols that cause smog, damage foliage, and acidify the soil, hindering roots' absorption of nutrients.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 4 Dec. 2019
• But given that oceans are currently acidifying again, this time due to a human-caused rise in CO2, could another mass extinction of calcareous plankton save us from the worst of climate change?
  — National Geographic, 16 Jan. 2020
• The asteroid may have also acidified Earth's oceans after its impact, according to a study published in October 2019.
  — Fox News, 19 Apr. 2020
• In the Rift Valley lakes, in Ethiopia, volcanic gases venting from below acidify the water, which is also rich in salts from brines created by the evaporation of ancient and modern bodies of water.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 28 Oct. 2019
• The underwater eruption near El Hierro superheated the water by as much as 19 °C, reduced the oxygen level, and rapidly acidified the ocean.
  — Chris Baraniuk, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2023

Last Updated: 23 Oct 2024