ACIDIFICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acidification mean? 

• ACIDIFICATION (noun)
  The noun ACIDIFICATION has 1 sense:

1. the process of becoming acid or being converted into an acid

  Familiarity information: ACIDIFICATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACIDIFICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of becoming acid or being converted into an acid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("acidification" is a kind of...):

action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))

Derivation:

acidify (turn acidic)

 Context examples 

This allele, which encodes V-type proton ATPase subunit S1 protein, is involved in vacuolar acidification.

(ATP6AP1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in organelle acidification.

(ATP6AP1 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This acidification impairs many cellular processes, such as metabolic activity, and may lead to cell cycle arrest, an induction of cellular apoptosis and necrotic cell death.

(cis-Urocanic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition, this agent inhibits protein kinase C, intracellular activation of the Fas/CD95 receptor, and intracellular acidification.

(Edelfosine, NCI Thesaurus)

This leads to an accumulation of lactate, intracellular acidification, and eventually cancer cell death.

(Monocarboxylate Transporter 1 Inhibitor AZD3965, NCI Thesaurus)

Acidification of the colon contents attracts ammonia from the bloodstream, assisting stool excretion; helpful in liver failure when ammonia cannot be detoxified.

(Lactulose, NCI Thesaurus)

Although one overarching conclusion of ocean acidification studies is that different species respond differently to elevated CO2 conditions, similar results have been reported in studies with different coral reef species.

(Fish larvae lose their way to safety in acidified oceans, SciDev.Net)

Acidification occurs when oceans absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) created by burning fossil fuels.

(Marine organisms in Southern Ocean will face shallower zone for life, National Science Foundation)

A new study reports how the mechanism works: When fossil fuels are burned, sulfuric and nitric acid eventually fall back to earth in rain and snow, causing acidification of the soil.

(Previously unknown mechanism causes increased forest water use, National Science Foundation)

Coral reefs, on which 25 per cent of the world’s fish species depend at some stage in their life-cycles, are similarly threatened by warming and acidification of the seas as result of climate change.

(Loudspeakers used to attract fish back to dying coral reefs, SciDev.Net)