acidification

Borrowed from French acidification, equivalent to acid +‎ -ification.

• IPA^(key): /əˌsɪdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

acidification (countable and uncountable, plural acidifications)

1. The act or process of making something sour (acidifying), or changing into an acid.
   • 2013 October 3, Roger Harrabin, “Health of oceans 'declining fast'”, in bbc.co.uk‎^[1], retrieved 5 October 2013:

     Coral reefs, for instance, are suffering from the higher temperatures and the effects of acidification whilst also being weakened by bad fishing practices, pollution, siltation and toxic algal blooms.

   Antonym: acidulation

   Antonym: basification

• acidify

• IPA^(key): /a.si.di.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/

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acidification f (plural acidifications)

1. acidification

• “acidification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.