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How can acids from living things cause weathering?
Acids "eat into" rock minerals particularly those that are alkaline (limestone). Living things produce substances that can turn into acids such as the carbon dioxide they breath out (which forms Carbonic Acid). Further organic material decays to produces organic acids (for instance the rotting of moss in a peat bog acidifies the water in it).
What kind of weathering is caused by lichen?
Lichen eat away at rocks.
Can waves cause erosion?
waves containing acid eat away at substances
How do you move away from feelings of "ANGER"?
take some breaths
What does the word mean eroded?
If you're asking for the definition of eroded, here it is: "to eat into or away; destroy by slow consumption or disintegration"
What are chemicals that eat away metal?
Acids, oxygen, water, certain molds, and rust.
What can strong acids do?
eat away your flash
Are enzymes a type of acid and can they eat away flesh?
Enzymes are proteins that catalyze the chemical reactions inside the body. No, they are not acids, and no, they do not eat away flesh.
How is air poolution destroying the pyramid?
Acids in the air eat away at the stone that they are made of.
What is a substance that will eat away any material?
Some acids will erode almost anything.
If Tyler does not eat a diet that includes essential amino acids his cells will not be able to build?
Certain proteins
What happens to fruits when put in coke?
the acids of the coke will start eat away at the fruit over time
Why do household products contain acids?
bleaches contain alkali's in them to burn away and eat fat
Can acid eat through concrete?
This depends on the type of acid.To put this simply: yes, there are certain acids which can dissolve concrete.
Acid is it good for plants?
Acid is definitely not good for plants. Acids will eat away the protective layers of the plant and kill it.
What does digestion do to the protein you eat?
Digestion breaks apart the proteins using specific enzymes (catalysts to speed up reactions) to make amino acids and then those amino acids are sorted and used throughout your body.
Why are acids described as corrosive?
Because they cause corrosion on a molecular level.
