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countable and uncountable, plural acidifications
The act or process of making something sour (acidifying), or changing into an acid. quotations examples
Coral reefs, for instance, are suffering from the higher temperatures and the effects of acidification whilst also being weakened by bad fishing practices, pollution, siltation and toxic algal blooms.
2013 October 3, Roger Harrabin, “Health of oceans 'declining fast'”, in bbc.co.uk, retrieved 2013-10-05