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• Also be careful when buying fortified wines and ports as some can be unbearably sweet or acidic.
• Streptococcus mutans (S. mutans) has the ability to survive in a highly acidic environment, which is what makes it such a nasty tooth-decayer: remember, it’s the acid bacteria produce as they consume carbohydrates that eats away at tooth enamel. Paging all you "Face on Mars" believers...
• •Most soils are dominated by quartz sand, and are acidic, xeric, and have a very limited nutrient supply; they are coarser, drier, less fertile, and less suited to agriculture than the mesic soils of Ecoregion 84d. Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
• Whether you are planting in a container or in the ground, don't forget a good acidic mulch of pine needles or wood chip. Times, Sunday Times
• Stools of children with lactose intolerance tend to be acidic and contain undigested sugar.
• Without it, the carbonic acid produced during breathing would remain acidic and throw an organism's system out of balance.
• It results from the reaction of phosphorus with iron and aluminum in acidic soils, and calcium in alkaline soils.
• That is an enormous range of substances and, as has already been pointed out, it includes explosives, corrosives, oxidising agents, reducing agents, caustic agents, and acidic agents - the works.
• Further exposure to oxygen converts the acetaldehyde to acetic acid, the acidic component of wine vinegar, the wine-maker's bête noire.
• Rain also tends to be slightly acidic. Smithsonian Mag