That material is more soluble in acidic fluid.

And the hydrothermal vents were in an acidic environment.

And as it does so, it makes the ocean more acidic.

The Microfinance Catalyst

The EU s Kosovo Catalyst

In this case, boiling water canning is for canning things that are already pretty acidic.

It's an incredibly powerful catalyst to change.

So many such that it's now just a home for bacteria who really like acidic, toxic conditions.

Youth are the catalyst for change and development.

Excess carbon dioxide is not only driving global warming, it's also changing ocean chemistry, making the sea more acidic.

The tree was in part a catalyst for the project.

According to Syria, the wet deposition might have included acidic components, ionic components, soluble metals, elemental carbon and soluble organic fractions.

Weak financial systems have often been a catalyst for broader economic crisis.

The taskforce will function as a catalyst for policy development and implementation.

Become a catalyst of change. Teach others learn about it talk about it.

That plan has served as a catalyst for action on behalf of Indonesia's children.

UNESCO has played an important part as a catalyst for proposals, initiatives and thinking.

In Burkina Faso, WFP acted as a catalyst for a partners' sub group on nutrition.

The first step involves matching demand with supply, where the intermediary plays the role of a catalyst.

And the reason I was interested in getting water is because water which goes through mines becomes kind of acidic and will start picking up, dissolving the minerals from the mine.

United Nations library staff will move towards a more interactive role, acting as a catalyst in and across its organizations.

Reiterating that the Special Climate Change Fund should serve as a catalyst to leverage additional resources from bilateral and other multilateral sources,

And, in thinking about that, then my second project, the second question I ask is Can a museum be a catalyst in a community?

It is clear that capacity building operates as a catalyst of change at the level of political institutions and organizations as well as individuals.

An inclusive approach based on dialogue can be a catalyst for cooperation to ensure that problems of shared resources can produce effective shared solutions.

In this regard, SMEs have a special and vital role because of their proven ability as a catalyst for employment generation and wealth creation.

First, higher levels of CO2 are making the world s oceans acidic. If we continue with business as usual, we will end up destroying a vast amount of marine life, severely damaging the food chains on which we rely.

And so instead of being a developer that sees an opportunity to make money, they saw an ability to be a catalyst in their downtown.

We put our trust in our President to set up the structures for ongoing work and to be the catalyst to motivate and energize us.

The presence and direct involvement of foreign military forces in the Republic of Moldova and in Georgia has become the main catalyst of these conflicts.

If they try, the world economy will push the planet beyond safe operating conditions. Temperatures will rise, storms will intensify, the oceans will become more acidic, and species will go extinct in vast numbers as their habitats are destroyed.

What was significant about this exhibition is the way in which it engaged me in my role as a curator, as a catalyst, for this dialogue.

China s real estate price bubble is often named as a likely catalyst for a crisis. But how such a downturn would unfold is far from certain.

These countries had embarked on promotion activities in recent years, as they were aware of FDI's potential role as a catalyst in boosting their supply capacities.

But it is safe to say that this summit has served as a real catalyst for development advances that we have been seeking for many years.

Policies and measures could be adopted to promote such subsidies as a catalyst to attract finance from other sources or to promote the creation of enterprises.

The Special Unit was the catalyst in the creation of the NERICA Consortium for Food Security in sub Saharan Africa to implement the Africa Rice Initiative.

Development assistance is a catalyst for growth, but the primary engine for economic expansion and transformational development is sound policies at the national level and accountable government.

It is of course our wish that our draft resolution have the broadest possible support and that it serve as a catalyst for the reform process as a whole.

The international arrangement on forests can act as a catalyst in ensuring that forests play their full part in contributing to the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals.

Setting a global goal in this regard may serve as a catalyst for action at all levels and encourage countries to set their own national targets to fulfil this commitment.

Furthermore, the Governments of Guinea and Sierra Leone need to urgently resolve the territorial dispute over the Yenga village border area in the east, which remains a potential catalyst for trouble.

The Alliance of Civilizations must be a sustained, long term action if it is to be a catalyst for a genuinely universal awareness of the importance of the task we face.

The process in question involves the reaction of vegetable oils with an alcohol (ethanol or methanol) in the presence of a catalyst to produce the diesel (with glycerol as the by product).

BANGKOK China s government and Hong Kong s wealthiest man, the much admired Li Ka shing, have been waging an acidic spat one that increasingly looks like a bitter divorce being played out in tabloid newspapers. Indeed, Chinese media have lately been directing a relentless stream of vitriol at Li.