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I understand your point, but it's very "glass half-full/half-empty". Conversely, acid doesn't "eat away" at anything, it's that things happily dissolve themsel

I understand your point, but it's very "glass half-full/half-empty". Conversely, acid doesn't "eat away" at anything, it's that things happily dissolve themselves into acid. The problem is the same, regardless of the language used to describe it.

001sky 12y ago
Conversely, acid doesn't "eat away" at anything, it's that things happily dissolve themselves into acid. These things don't disolve into acid--because they disolve into dilute alkaline solutions. This is unlike acid rain--which is actually acidic: Pure water has a pH of 7.0. However, normal rain is slightly acidic because carbon dioxide (CO2) dissolves into it forming weak carbonic acid, giving the resulting mixture a pH of approximately 5.6 at typical atmospheric concentrations of CO2. As of 2000, the most acidic rain falling in the U.S. has a pH of about 4.3. The Ph of seawater is never acidic, and is by itself actually complex. See, eg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PH#Seawater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PH#Seawater Compare Wikipedia's Entry on "Ocean Acidification", Which no-where mentions that the work "alkaline": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification Yet states, for clarity, "A National Research Council study released in April 2010 likewise concluded that "the <level of acid> in the oceans is increasing at an unprecedented rate." The "level of acid" in the ocean? Surely a scientist would say "the ph is declining..." or "alkalinity is being reduced" or the maybe "solution's alkalinity is being neutralized"?