Since the amount of added protons is near-identical for the experiments with strong acids, we can conclude that the observed variation in dissolution inhibition in the presence of inorganic acids is not solely explained by the presence of H + but must be influenced by other factors. Additional experiments with different acid concentrations were conducted to characterize the inhibiting effect of each acid on the CAC dissolution onset more deeply. In all cases, an increasing amount of acid leads to a more extended inhibition period, as shown for perchloric acid in As discussed in section 3.1, we use the pH curves to extract a characteristic time for the inhibition period by determining the time at pH 9 (vertical dotted lines in Figure ). The aggregated data reveals an exponential dependence (t