Oyster Shell As a Neutralizer

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Significance of the Study Oyster shells are one of the many household garbage that affixes the long trails of unmanned wastes that threaten the ecology. Oyster shell deposits a lot of CaCo3 (calcium carbonate) in it, which have many used in the environment and one of this is being a pH buffer. The presence of hydrogen (pH) buffers maintains the pH of a substance, either by increasing or decreasing its pH. They are very important and helpful nowadays because of the rapid change of our environmental nature includes the creation of acid rain. Acid rain is one of the major effects of the accumulation of toxins and acids emitted and formed by human activities such as burning fossil fuels that threatens not only the people of the society but also the environment itself specially the bodies of water lying in it which directly harms all the creatures living in it because of the sudden changes in the environment, the sudden changing pH (presence of hydrogen) in the body they are living. With this is so-called “waste”, the community will now have an alternative handy pH buffer that will not come from the markets and their money, but now coming from their own trash cans and garbage bins. PH buffering is a necessity now, especially because the society is facing an age wherein the environment is suffering from severe contamination, one good example is acid rain, wherein, pH buffers play a great role in maintaining the ecology’s balance in the presence of hydrogen. Even if this pH buffer only contributes a small part in our society. Scope and Limitations This study focus on determining the potential of the crushed oyster shells as a pH buffer to water. This included tests on “before-and-after” condition of the water which concerns upon the application of the planned pH buffer as plotted on the research design of this study. It does not include any test involving living

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