carbonic-acid gas

[ kahr-bon-ik as-id ]

noun

1. carbon dioxide.

carbonic-acid gas

noun

1. another name for carbon dioxide

Word History and Origins

Origin of carbonic-acid gas¹

First recorded in 1875–80

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.”

From Washington Post

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”.

From Nature

To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg