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That doesn't mean it's useless though. > Caldeira and colleagues added sodium hydroxide—also known as lye and an ingredient in many soaps and detergents—to a p
by DennisP 4y ago
That doesn't mean it's useless though.
> Caldeira and colleagues added sodium hydroxide—also known as lye and an ingredient in many soaps and detergents—to a part of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. They found it raised pH levels nearly to preindustrial levels, allowing the natural calcification of the reef to increase.
- gs17 4y agoI'm glad to hear about this, ocean acidification does not get enough attention, which has always been weird to me since it seems to be linked to both CO2 emissions and bad things happening in ways that are much harder to deny.