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Digital ACT Science Practice Question #1519

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Coral fragments were grown in seawater mesocosms with varying dissolved CO2: - pH 8.1 (ambient): Calcification rate = 1.25 mg CaCO3/cm^2/day - pH 7.8: Calcification rate = 0.82 mg CaCO3/cm^2/day - pH 7.6: Calcification rate = 0.44 mg CaCO3/cm^2/day Lower seawater pH reduces coral calcification because:
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Lower pH = fewer carbonate ions available for calcification.

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Acidification introduces H+ which binds CO3^2- to form HCO3-, lowering carbonate saturation needed to build CaCO3 skeleton....

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