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carbonic-acid gas
[ kahr-bon-ik as-id ]
carbonic-acid gas
noun
- another name for carbon dioxide
Word History and Origins
Origin of carbonic-acid gas1
Example Sentences
Fermenting vegetable matter — it was believed a temperature of between 67 and 75 degrees was most conducive to creating malaria — generated “carbonic acid gas.”
She found that the action of the Sun’s rays was “greater in moist than in dry air” and that the highest effect of the sun’s rays was in “carbonic acid gas”.
To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air.
Asphyxiation.—A practical man, conversant with cases in which asphyxiation resulted from inhaling carbonic acid gas, gives some valuable hints for their recovery by simple remedies always at hand.
Where the case is not imminent, alkalies have sometimes been successfully administered, which combine with the carbonic acid gas, and thus at once reduce its volume.
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