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Bradley Eyre received funding from the Australia Research Council. Carbonate sands on coral reefs will start dissolving within about 30 years, on average, as oceans become more acidic, new research ...

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Note: This release has been updated since its original posting. The most precise description ever obtained by experiment of exactly how an acid compound dissolves, molecule by molecule, will be ...