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Stories about: carbonic acid

Ocean Acidification Leads to Oyster Population Collapse Investigators at the Oregon State University (OSU) say that oyster seed production has collapsed in recent times, due to the encroaching influence of oceanic acidification. The phenomenon is very severe, since it can have global repercussions. Ocean acidification is a process through which the pH levels of water aro... 12 April 2012 04:23 GMT Math Solves Cave Formation Mystery While caves are the stuff of wonder for speleologists and of adventure for spelunkers, they also represent a mystery for physicists, who have been trying to figure out how the structures form for years. Now, a new mathematical model was developed to explain the mystery.One of the most important puzzles related to cav... 1 December 2010 09:04 GMT Exposure to CO2 Leads to Fear of Suffocation It would appear that our genetic legacy also features some very intriguing left-overs, which are not necessarily of use to us today. One such feature is the fact that the human brain triggers a primordial type of fear when exposed to increased amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2), which makes us fear suffocation in the mo... 26 November 2009 20:01 GMT