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 Hi refreshed,

Your question: Are there any benefits to adding large amounts of calcium hydroxide to sea water? Negatives?

Since it has been proposed to add it to reduce atmospheric CO2 and fight the greenhouse effect would it be a good thing to use to help with low oxygen areas of the oceans?

I think Grz already posted something hitting somewhat on this.

Answer: The problem is not CO2, for plants need CO2 in order to Live !

The problem may be Excess Nitrogen waste washed into the oceans along with the Herbicides and Pesticides and Fungicides and all the Industrial waste which Prevent the Ocean water from being able to carry enough Oxygen?

This may lead to too Acidic ocean waters called Dead Zones?

Cause and Effect !

Smile Tis your choice.

Response:

Acidity does not cause these dead zones. In fact many of these dead zones are in coral reefs, which are composed of calcium carbonate. Calcium carbonate buffers acids, so it is impossible for these waters to be acidic. So if the water was really acidic the coral would not just be dead it would be dissolved. The problem is that the pollution creates large algae blooms that choke out the corals. You will also see cases of large fish kills in fresh water lakes as well. As the algae blooms dies and decay the process sucks up oxygen from the water leading to suffocaton of the fish. This has nothing to do with the water becoming acidic though. Water can become depleted of oxygen by raising the temperature as well, though the pH is not being made acidic. This is why many species of trout die if they get in to warm water. The warm water does not hold enough oxygen for them to breathe and they end up suffocating.