It is also sensitive to acidity.
Unfortunately, this is more sensitive to acidity than calcite is.An omega value for aragonite of one is the level of acidity where calcium carbonate dissolves out of the mineral as easily as it precipitates into it.
In a report on M. Smegmatis[ 6], the mutant sigE was more sensitive to acidity, hydrogen peroxide, SDS and thermal shock than the wild type.
Anaerobic digestion is very sensitive to temperature, acidity, and other factors.
Grown extensively under irrigation, beets tolerate a relatively high salt content of the soil but are sensitive to high acidity and to a low content of boron.
In addition, more than one-third of the marine species living in the state's Puget Sound are calcifiers (shell-builders), meaning they could be especially sensitive to rising acidity.
Our previous results using confocal fluorescence microscopy and a fluorescent probe reaction that is very sensitive to the acidity of the zeolite were unable to monitor such a zeolitic distribution in the interior of the FCC catalyst bodies.
Late endosomes of U18666A cells were however 0.41 (using anti-lamp1 FITC) to 0.88 (using FITC dextran) pH units less acidic than late endosomes from control cells, yet pH was still sensitive to bafilomycin, suggesting that acidity was still mainly due to the V-ATPase.
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Many micro- and macro-organisms are highly sensitive to changes in pH (acidity); additional chemicals in water will undoubtedly change a river's pH and harm the ecosystem if sustained.
Corals, which are colonies of tiny animals related to sea anemones, have proven highly sensitive to changes in the acidity and temperature of their surrounding waters, both of which are rising due to the absorption of excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
