carbonic acid gas

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• The liquid flows out the groove and turns into a liquid curtain for better cooling and good carbonic acid gas absorption.
• This danger proceeds from fire-damp, as one unlucky stroke of the pick may bring forth a stream of carbureted hydrogen gas, inexplosive of itself, but if mixed with eight times its bulk of air, more dangerous than gunpowder, and which, if by chance it comes in contact with the flame of a candle, is sure to explode, and certain death is the result -- not always from the explosion itself, but from the after-damp or carbonic acid gas which follows it. Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects
• The source of the gas, which Bonnet had first noticed to be given off from plant-leaves, Priestley had identified as oxygen, and Ingenhousz had proved to be only given off under the influence of the sun's rays, was finally shown by a Swiss naturalist, Jean Sénébier [6] (1742-1809), to be the _carbonic acid gas_ in the air, which the plant absorbed and decomposed, giving out the oxygen and assimilating the carbon. Manures and the principles of manuring
• From the acids in insoluble and a few other compounds, chromic, arsenic, and arsenious acids, by fusion with carbonate of soda in presence of carbonic acid gas; borate of manganese is readily decomposed when the boracic acid is to be determined by boiling with solution of potassa, dissolving the residue in hydrochloric acid and precipitating the manganese as binoxide. Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882
• The quantity of air which we take into our lungs at each inspiration, is about 40 cubic inches, which contain a little less than 10 cubic inches of oxygen; and of those 10 inches, one-eighth is converted into carbonic acid gas on passing once through the lungs*, a change which is sufficient to prevent air which has only been breathed once from suffering a taper to burn in it. Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
• The starch has to be changed by the ferment called diastase (diastase is a vegetable ferment which converts starchy foods into a soluble material called maltose) into sugar, and the sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid gas (carbon dioxide), when it makes itself known by the bubbles which appear and the gradual swelling of the whole mass. Public School Domestic Science
• The first fire extinguishers were of the "annihilator" pattern, so arranged in a building that when a fire occurred carbonic acid gas was evolved, and, if the conditions were right (as the mediums say), the fire was put out. Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882
• 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
• Of all the gases tested it was carbonic acid gas, known today as carbon dioxide, that trapped the most heat. Times, Sunday Times
• Of all the gases tested it was carbonic acid gas, known today as carbon dioxide, that trapped the most heat. Times, Sunday Times