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 dis

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"?