Question

what happens when hydrochloric acid is added to coral

Answer 1

Answer:

It depends on the amount, but even a modest amount would cause the coral to die.

Corals, like most animals have evolved to survive within relatively narrow environmental conditions. With increased acid, the calcium carbonate that makes up the coral’s skeleton will start to dissolve. Corals can increase the pH within their tissue to counter act this, but only to a limited extent.

This effect is happening right now in the oceans as the result of increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which ultimately dissolves in the ocean to form carbonic acid. The pH of the ocean is dropping pretty rapidly and causing .

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