acidizationn.
/ˌasᵻdʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌæsədəˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌæsədaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ Chiefly Oil Industry and Geology.
The process or action of acidizing something, esp. a well or a rock formation; an instance of this.In quot. 1893 perhaps used with reference to a theory current in the early 1890s which associated eczema with an ‘acid temperament’ and acidic conditions in the tissues.
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1893 A. Ravoglia in Hand Bk. First Pan-Amer. Med. Congr. 217 The cocci produce taxalbumen which has a local irritant action upon the epidermis causing at times an acidization of eczema.
1934 Oil & Gas Jrnl. 22 Nov. 63/1 Olson Oil Co. and Shell Petroleum Corp.'s No. 3..was treated with acid and made 2,867 bbls. in 24 hours, but after a second acidization it produced 4,265 bbls. on the first day's test.
1953 Jrnl. Paleontol. 27 685/2 A large portion of the fauna remains undiscovered and further acidization of the rock containing the etchable fossils will increase the known fauna.
1959 Petroleum Handbk. (Shell Internat. Petroleum Co.) (ed. 4) 136 The process of acidization has long been established and is used chiefly for limestone reservoirs.
1990 D. Harker in P. Howsam Water Wells xvi. 160 These techniques can be used..to study the effects of development by acidisations.
2005 M. Streetly et al. in D. Senior & N. Dege Technol. Bottled Water (ed. 2) iv. 122 Boreholes can be redeveloped..by acidisation to remove encrustation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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