NOUN
- a weak acid known only in solution; formed when carbon dioxide combines with water
How To Use carbonic acid In A Sentence
- I have here a jar suspended at one end of a balanceit 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
- That's when carbonic acid from the groundwater above and sulfuric acid from the hydrocarbon field below went to work dissolving limestone. THIS TIME LOVE
- Most microalgae are probably not limited by CO2 because they contain the enzyme carbonic acid anhydrase, which can furnish CO2 from bicarbonate [8]. Physical factors mediating ecological change in the Artic
- Its taste is strongly but to me pleasantly saline, with an aftertaste which hints of its invigorating chalybeate element, and an unobtrusive sparkle of carbonic acid gas which is to the boisterous energy of Soda Water as a smile is to loud laughter. Off to the Races
- A red precipitate of chromous acetate is formed, which is washed by decantation in water containing carbonic acid. Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885
- So long as we had no analytical methods of sufficient delicacy to estimate with certainty the hundredth, or at least the tenth of a milligramme of carbonic acid, it was very difficult to determine the quantity in the air at a given time and place. Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882
- The blue chromous chloride solution thus obtained is poured into a saturated solution of sodium acetate in an atmosphere of carbonic acid. Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885
- Of all the gases tested it was carbonic acid gas, known today as carbon dioxide, that trapped the most heat. Times, Sunday Times
- CarbFix's designers, in effect, are radically speeding up the natural process called weathering, in which weak carbonic acid in rainwater transforms rock minerals over geologic time scales. The Seattle Times
- The aqueous vapor condensed from the air dissolves part of the carbonic acid contained therein, and carries it along, when it falls as rain upon the earth, and takes up there enough lime to form the bicarbonate, which is thus carried back to the sea. Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882
