It can instantly cause severe burns on your skin. It can even dissolve things like limestone and concrete. This is battery acid. Now instead of this acid being inside our batteries, what if we decided to fill 80% of our world with it? Specifically, what if we decided to turn our oceans into acid? What would this acid do to ocean wildlife? What would swimming in this be like? And how could this affect our cities?

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