carbonic acid
- the acid, H2CO3, formed when carbon dioxide dissolves in water, known in the form of its salts and esters, the carbonates.
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Origin of carbonic acid
First recorded in 1785–95
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It is highly inflammable, burning with a pale-blue flame, and giving off sulphurous and carbonic-acid gases.
This is carbonic-acid gas, which is a poison and will destroy life.
First Book in Physiology and HygieneJ.H. Kellogg
Here it combines with the carbonic-acid gas taken from the air.
The School Book of ForestryCharles Lathrop Pack
These bubbles are a form of gas called carbon-dioxide, or carbonic-acid, gas.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 1Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
The most amazing fact is that this "too, too solid flesh" of the tree body was all made of dirty water and carbonic-acid gas.
Trees Worth KnowingJulia Ellen Rogers
carbonic acid
- a weak acid formed when carbon dioxide combines with water: obtained only in aqueous solutions, never in the pure state. Formula: H 2 CO 3
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carbonic acid
[kär-bŏn′ĭk]
- A weak, unstable acid present in solutions of carbon dioxide in water. It gives carbonated beverages their sharp taste. Chemical formula: H2CO3.
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