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How To Use carbonic In A Sentence

• I closed my eyes, wondering if I were trapped within some dream induced by carbonic acid. ANTI-ICE
• Of course, also, the nitrogen associated with the oxygen in the air admitted to the gas generator passes on with the carbonic oxide gas, this nitrogen acting as a dilutant and being of course absolutely useless as a generator of heat. Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883
• There is another gas, called carbonic acid, made partly of oxygen and partly of carbon, or burnt wood, which might be called Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation
• I have here a jar suspended at one end of a balance—it is now equipoised; but when I pour this carbonic acid into the jar on the one side which now contains air, you will see it sink down at once because of the carbonic acid that I pour into it. The Chemical History of a Candle
• Of all the gases tested it was carbonic acid gas, known today as carbon dioxide, that trapped the most heat. Times, Sunday Times
• Import of the term oxide as applied to a gaseous body -- carbonic ox. contains half as much oxygen as carbonic acid -- hence may be obtained by abstracting from carbonic acid half its oxygen. Outlines of the Lectures on Chemistry, Mineralogy, & Geology, Delivered at the University of North-Carolina, for the Use of the Students. [1]-44 p.
• The main interest of the question of course lies in its bearing on the long-disputed relations between plants and animals; for, since neither locomotion nor irritability is peculiar to animals; since many insectivorous plants habitually digest solid food; since cellulose, that most characteristic of vegetable products, is practically identical with the tunicin of Ascidians, it becomes of the greatest interest to know whether the chlorophyl of animals preserves its ordinary vegetable function of effecting or aiding the decomposition of carbonic anhydride and the synthetic production of starch. Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882
• The first fermentation in cider is termed the vinous; in this the sugar is decomposed, and loses its sweetness, and is converted into alcohol; if the fermentation goes on too rapidly, the cider is injured; a portion of alcohol passes off with the carbonic acid. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
• Initially, the ammonia and carbon dioxide reacts with water to form the weak electrolytes, ammonium hydroxide and carbonic acid.
• The gas made by the candle in burning, and which also is got out of the chalk and marble, is called carbonic acid. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850