But before I could say or do anything, one of them set down what looked like a tank containing carbonic acid gas, like they use at drug store soda water fountains.
It hasn't even the virtues of soda water, for that has carbonic acid gas in it and that's beneficial at times.
What this company proposes to do is to saturate water with this carbonic acid gas mixed with nitrogen, and then pour that prepared water on fires.
Well, I'm not sure that I've got a correct notion of it myself, but my impression is that carbonic acid gas is the foundation-principle of it.
In what respects are carbonic and sulphurous acids similar?
What weight of sodium hydroxide is necessary to neutralize the carbonic acid formed by the action of hydrochloric acid on 100 g.
When water is added the two compounds react together, forming aluminium carbonate, which hydrolyzes into aluminium hydroxide and carbonic acid.
The acid carbonates are made by treating a normal carbonate with an excess of carbonic acid.
Like all acids containing two acid hydrogen atoms, carbonic acid can form both normal and acid salts.
In return our tissues give up a waste product, carbonic acid gas, which is thrown off by the lungs.
It is interesting to observe that the carbonic acid gas which animals exhale supports the life of plants, and that the plants, under the influence of sunlight, give back pure oxygen to the atmosphere.
When the air is admitted at all, it should be admitted above as well as below the fuel, so that the carbonic oxyde that is generated in the mass may be burned, or converted into carbonic acid, over the top.
All the coal of which we have spoken is but the result of the action of sun-light in past ages, decomposing carbonic acid in the vegetative process.
Supposing the whole estimated stock of coal in the world to be consumed at once, it would cover the entire globe with a stratum of carbonic acid about seventy-two feet deep.
We often read of persons going into wells where there are noxious gases, or remaining in a close room where there are live coals generatingcarbonic acid gas and thus becoming asphyxiated, dying for want of oxygen.
A deficiency of oxygen and an accumulation of carbonicacid in the atmosphere, produce injurious effects, however, long before the asphyxiating point is attained.
When anything interferes with the absorption of oxygen, or the elimination of carbonic acid, the blood is not changed from venous to arterial, and becomes incapable of sustaining life.
In addition to the animal and the saline matters, the urine also contains a small quantity of carbonic acid, oxygen and nitrogen.
Oxygen, carbonic acid, watery vapors, and other gaseous matter are constantly being exchanged between the system and atmosphere.
When carbonicacid predominates, the blood is dark red; when oxygen, scarlet.
Food must be rich in carbon in order that it may build up the tissues and keep the body warm, but carbonic acid, the result of the combustion, must be removed from the blood, or death will ensue.
The mucous surface of the lungs is continually throwing off carbonic acid and absorbing oxygen; and through their surface poisons are sometimes taken into the blood.
Hence, it follows that about 16-2/3 cubic feet of air are passed through the lungs of an adult man every hour, and deprived of oxygen and charged with carbonic acid to the amount of nearly five per cent.
The atmosphere, being thus deprived of its volatile chlorine and sulphur compounds, would approximate to that of our own time, but differ in its greater amount of carbonic acid.
Some writers[89] on this subject have suggested that the cosmical use of this plant-creation was the abstraction from the atmosphere of an excess of carbonic acid unfavorable to the animal life subsequently to be introduced.
The act or preparation of charging with carbonic acid gas or with oxygen.
The process of converting venous blood into arterial blood during its passage through the lungs, oxygen being absorbed and carbonic acid evolved; Ð called also aration and hematosis.
To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air.
Arated bread, bread raised by charging dough with carbonic acid gas, instead of generating the gas in the dough by fermentation.
Owing to the fragile nature of the shells of foraminifera they readily become disintegrated, especially at considerable depths, largely by the solvent action of carbonic acid in sea water as they sink to the bottom.
All limestones dissolve readily in cold dilute acids, giving off bubbles of carbonic acid.
When limonite is dehydrated and deoxidized in the presence of carbonic acid, it may give rise to chalybite.
A solution of the hydrate in water, known as lime-water, has a weakly alkaline reaction; it is employed in the detection of carbonic acid.
It is less interesting, perhaps, but still it is interesting, to know that when a taper burns, the wax is converted into carbonic acid and water.
If you pass the same carbonic acid over the very quicklime thus obtained, you will obtain carbonate of lime again; but it will not be calc-spar, nor anything like it.
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 statement that a crystal of calc-spar consists of carbonate of lime, is quite true, if we only mean that, by appropriate processes, it may be resolved into carbonicacid and quicklime.
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.
And this dissociation is nothing more than if you took some white of egg and mixed with it a quantity of oxygen so as to form urea, carbonic acid, and water.
The moment one feels hungry this glycogen changes into sugar again, enters the blood, and is burned up, like a candle, into carbonic acid and water.
Wherever it finds a particle ofcarbonic acid it seizes it, carries it to the lungs, and discharges it into the air.
You cannot perform any action without making a given quantity of poisonous carbonic acid.
The drop of acid boils up and gives off the pungent odour of carbonic acid gas.
The carbonic acid gas exhaled from the lungs unites with the invisible lime, causing it to become visible particles of carbonate of lime, which fall to the bottom of the basin.
When these burn or decay, the carbon remains as charcoal or escapes to the air in union with oxygen as the well known carbonic acid gas.
Carbonic acid gas, whether free in the air, or absorbed by percolating water, hastens the dissolving of skeletons of creatures that die upon land.
We must conclude that the climate was tropical, the air very heavy with moisture, and charged much more heavily than it is now with carbonic acid gas.
Out of soil water, brought up from the roots, and the carbonic acid gas, taken in from the air, rich, sugary starch is manufactured in the leaf laboratory.
Carbonic acid gas in the water greatly hastens the dissolving of dead shells.
You see, fresh air is composed of three parts, oxygen and nitrogen and carbonic acid gas.
But you will see, Karl, the black carbonic acid is still in my body, and so I shall have the cursed Podagra again.
Butler the kaolinization of the west of England granite may have been effected by a solution of carbonic acid at a high temperature, acting from below.
But coal is as much an essential condition of this growth and development as carbonic acid is for that of a club-moss.
She is paid back principal and interest at the same time; and she straightway invests the carbonic acid, the water, and the ammonia in new forms of life, feeding with them the plants that now live.
If the patient knows any thing, he will show immediate signs of distress, violent but ineffectual attempts to breathe, and the face quickly becomes a dark blue color, from the accumulation of carbonic acid in the blood.
The bone phosphate of lime is insoluble in water, and but very slightly soluble in water containing carbonic acid.
The mixtures, of course, all lost weight considerably by the evolution of water andcarbonic acid.
The mixtures, of course, lost weight considerably by the evolution of water and carbonic acid.
The phosphate of lime in bones is insoluble in water, though rain water containing carbonic acid, and the water in soils, slowly dissolve it.
In the fermentation of dung, a very considerable proportion of the organic matters in fresh manure is dissipated into the air in the form of carbonic acid and other gases.
This treatment transforms sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid gas.
The student must guard himself against the idea that arterial blood contains no carbonic acid, and venous blood no oxygen.
In passing through the lungs venous blood loses only a part of its carbonic acid; and arterial blood, in passing through the tissues, loses only a part of its oxygen.
In blood, however venous, there is in health always some oxygen; and in even the brightest arterial blood there is actually more carbonic acid than oxygen.
Just as burning paper smokes when it does not get enough oxygen, so other things are formed and get into the blood when there is not enough oxygen to make carbonic acid.
The quantity of carbonic acid exhaled by the breath is proportionately diminished with the decline of animal heat.
The yeast cells grow and multiply at the expense of the sugar, in destroying which they produce alcohol, carbonic dioxide and other substances.
This residue is composed of sugar, tartaric, acetic and carbonic acids, salts of potassium and sodium, tannic acid, and traces of an ethereal substance which gives the peculiar or distinguishing flavor.
Now, then, plants naturally absorb carbonic acid and give off oxygen during daylight.
At night, the process is reversed: then they absorb oxygen and give off carbonic acid.
But of course the discovery of Lavoisier that the carbonic acid and the alcohol taken together are very nearly equal in weight to the sugar, completely upset this hypothesis.
So that it was clear there were in sugar the fundamental elements which are contained in the carbonic acid, and in the alcohol.
Its food is to be carbonic acid, water and ammonia, and the saline matters in the soil, which are, by the supposition, everywhere alike.
The green coloring matter of plants is a very complex substance known as chlorophyll, the duty of which is to take carbonic oxide from the air, utilize the carbon, and restore the oxygen.
There is one sort of ferment that grows in apple juice and splits the sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid, forming "hard cider," and if the fermentation stops at this point the well-known drink results.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carbonic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
