Humans produce tons of CO2, about half of this pollution is dissolved into the ocean. The other parts going into living things. The pH scale ranges from 0-14. 0 is being very acidic and 14 very basic. 7 is the neutral and what distilled water is. The p in pH stand for the potential to create charged hydrogen atoms. Because the pH scale is logarithmic the smallest change means a lot. Recently there has been an increase in acidity in the ocean. The problem with CO2 being released is that it creates a chain reaction which allows more Hydrogen to release in the water therefore increasing the acidity.When this happened ocean animals have a tougher time living and eating because they require a complicated chemical reaction that the increase in acidity affects.
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