carbonic-acid gas

[ kahr-bon-ik as-id ]

noun

1. carbon dioxide.

carbonic-acid gas

noun

1. See carbon dioxide
   another name for carbon dioxide

Word History and Origins

Origin of carbonic-acid gas¹

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

Each person exhales about fourteen cubic feet of carbonic acid gas in an hour.

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The carbonic acid gas thus formed produces minute air-cells in the bread, or, as the cook says, makes it light.

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Third, they take up from the water the poisonous carbonic acid gas which passes from the bodies of the animals.

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As to the Babu, no carbonic acid gas could inconvenience his wonderful Bengali nature.

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Rain, when it falls to the ground, carries with it some carbonic acid gas which it has absorbed from the atmosphere.

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