The phrase "acidic pond" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a pond with a low pH level, indicating that it is acidic in nature.
Example: "The researchers discovered an acidic pond that was home to unique species of algae adapted to such extreme conditions."
Alternatives: "sour pond" or "low pH pond".
Scarlet sugar maples and sweet gums will flank the orange waters of the most acidic pond, followed by yellow aspens and tulip poplars as the pH rises and finally by blue-green sycamores as the water clears.
However, chemist James Ferris of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute IN Troy, New York, who has found certain clays can actually facilitate biological interactions in the lab, thinks a better environment might be a cooler, less acidic pond.
For example, he says, genetic pathways from organisms that can break down environmental pollutants could be engineered into bacteria that could survive in harsh and contaminated environments, such as acidic ponds, and then used to clean up those areas.
This could indicate selection for higher growth rates through gape limited predators [e.g., [ 64]], such as libellullid dragonflies, which are one of the most common predators of R. arvalis tadpoles in acidic ponds [[ 65], this study].
In this study we used phytostabilization aided with calcium carbonate and pig slurry/manure to reclaim an acidic bare tailing pond with the aim of investigating the effect of amending and different species on microbial community structure and function.
It is too acidic for them, so that ponds dug in former forest land have to be heavily (and expensively) limed to stop the crop from dying.
He said government studies estimated that in fewer than 40 years, half of that region's nearly 3,000 lakes and ponds would be too acidic to sustain the fish and plants that now live in them if the acid rain problem continued unabated.
He noted that state and Federal officials estimate that by the year 2040, nearly half of that region's 2,800 lakes and ponds will be too acidic to sustain the fishes and plants that now live in them if the acid rain problem persists unabated.
Adirondack Park, in upstate New York, suffered more than anywhere else: hundreds of streams, ponds, and lakes there became so acidic that they could no longer support plant life or fish.
Currently, in Israel, phosphate acidic wastes formed during the production of phosphoric acid (H3PO4) using hydrochloric acid (HCl) are stored in large ponds.
Natural attenuation of an acidic plume in the aquifer underneath a uranium mill tailings pond in Wyoming, USA was simulated using the multi-component reactive transport code phreeqc.
