Swimming in Acid: Understanding Ocean Acidification

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Swimming in Acid: Understanding Ocean Acidification

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Is the weight of the shells supposed to increase or decrease? Why?
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Hi there!

Is this the project you are doing? https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... background

Can you explain a little more about the results that you got with your experiment? Did you see a shift up or down?

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This is the project I was doing. I saw that the shells increased in their weight.
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I did a Google search for: sea shells increase in weight in highly acidic water and I came up with this link http://www.livescience.com/3363-growing ... tures.html Check it out, I think it may help answer your question as to why you saw an increase in weight.
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