acidify
verb (used with or without object)
acidifier
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a word derived from
acidify.
Example Sentences
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There are also commercial additives that will adjust the pH of soil — garden lime will increase the pH, making it more alkaline, while a soil acidifier will decrease the pH.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2022
Lavoisier had recognized oxygen as the acidifier; Black had proved that a caustic alkali does not contain carbonic acid.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
Berthollet had thrown doubt on the universality of Lavoisier's name "oxygen," the acidifier, but he had not conclusively proved the existence of any acid which did not contain oxygen.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
Not oxygen, Lavoisier’s general acidifier, but reactive hydrogen determines the character of acids.
From History of Phosphorus by Eduard Farber
The phlogistic theory, which had tyrannized over chemistry, had been succeeded by the Lavoisierian chemistry, which recognized one acidifier, and this also the one supporter of combustion.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
