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Definition of Acidification

1. Noun. The process of becoming acid or being converted into an acid.

Definition of Acidification

1. n. The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid.

Definition of Acidification

1. Noun. The act or process of making something sour (acidifying), or changing into an acid. ¹

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Definition of Acidification

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Acidification

1. The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid. Origin: Cf. F. Acidification. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Acidification

Literary usage of Acidification

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of the Inductive Sciences, from the Earliest to the Present Time by William Whewell (1894)
"These three steps we shall now briefly treat of. CHAPTER IV. DOCTRINE OF acidification AND COMBUSTION.—PHLOGISTIC THEORY. PUBLICATION of the Theory by ..."

2. History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time by William Whewell (1857)
"They brought together, as processes of the same kind, a number of changes which at first appeared to have nothing in common; as acidification, combustion, ..."

3. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1871)
"Any liquid which', after acidification with sulphuric acid, contains, in 100000 parts by weight, more than 1 part by weight of free chlorine. " (jr. ..."

4. Journal of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy by Philadelphia College of Pharmacy (1833)
"acidification of Iodine by means of Nitric Acid. By A. Connell, Esq. AM The methods which have been hitherto followed for the oxidation of iodine, ..."

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