The high temperature of this water, and the quantity of carbonic acid that it contains, render it peculiarly fitted to afford a pabulum or nourishment to vegetable life.
Let water, carbonic acid, and all the other needful constituents be supplied except nitrogenous salts, and an ordinary plant will still be unable to manufacture protoplasm.
Of these, carbon and oxygen unite in certain proportions and under certain conditions, to give rise to carbonic acid; hydrogen and oxygen produce water; nitrogen and other elements give rise to nitrogenous salts.
The mass becomes heated and swells; carbonic acid gas is disengaged, and the sugar disappears and is replaced by alcohol.
Examining the yeast mixed with the froth that was expelled into the mercury by the evolution of carbonic acid gas, we find that it was very fine, young, and actively budding.
These ferments are only cultivated out of contract with air, at the bottom of liquids which soon become saturated with carbonic acid gas.
Now one volume of acetylene on combustion yields two volumes of carbonic acid, whereas one volume of coal-gas yields about 0.
Carbonic acid is evolved, and, passing into the adjoining flask, is absorbed by the baryta, precipitating it as carbonate.
The specialité may be said to be baths and douches of carbonic acid gas.
Relation of oxygen to nitrogen; amount of carbonic acid; carbureted hydrogen; ammoniacal vapors.
Exhalations of carbonic acid ('mofettes') are even in our days to be considered as the most important of all gaseous emanations, with respect to their number and the amount of their effusion.
Let water, carbonic acid, and all the other needful constituents be supplied with ammonia, and an ordinary plant will still be unable to manufacture protoplasm.
Of these, carbon and oxygen unite, in certain proportions and under certain conditions, to give rise to carbonic acid; hydrogen and oxygen produce water; nitrogen and hydrogen give rise to ammonia.
The food of plants is purely mineral, and consists chiefly of water, carbonic acid, and ammonia.
Water is composed of the elements oxygen and hydrogen; carbonic acid is a compound of oxygen and carbon; and ammonia is formed of hydrogen and nitrogen.
Plants elaborate fat directly from the minerals--carbonic acid gas, and water.
Perhaps in the formation of fat fermentation is alone employed--a portion of the oxygen being removed as water, and another portion as carbonic acid.
Thompson, of New Cross, London, patented a new process of bleaching, the main feature of which consisted in the use of carbonic acid gas in a closed vessel to decompose the chloride of lime.
This organism has the power of transforming milk sugar and other saccharoses into lactic acid, with evolution of carbonic acid gas.
Dewar and Ansdell analyzed the gases in the meteorite, of which it contained three times its volume; the gases were in the following proportions to each other: Carbonic acid 61.
Just as every breath she ever drew had been malignantly poisoning the air with carbonic acid, so her every thought and feeling had been tainting the universe with sin.
The air we breathe is made up of four elements, at least: oxygen, nitrogen, carbonic acid gas, and knowledge.
The noted mineral-waters containing iron, sulphur, carbonic acid, supply nutritious or stimulating materials to the body as much as phosphate of lime and ammoniacal compounds do to the cereal plants.
In ordinary respiration of 20 to the minute the average of carbonic acid exhaled is 4.
You are already aware how small a quantity of carbonic acid in excess in the air will seriously affect life.
In both spontaneous and excited fermentation, there is a similar escape of a large quantity of elastic fluid, or carbonic acid gas, with a considerable proportion of spirit, and some of the water of the fermented fluid.
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