Sidenote: How carbon dioxidenters the air] Carbon dioxid is constantly formed by many natural processes.
This formation of food material in plants by the combination of simple chemical substances, such as carbon dioxid and water, is one of the fundamental life-processes.
Thus the waste-products of the yeast-plant are carbon dioxid and alcohol.
Sidenote: Formation of iron-rust] When iron rusts the carbon dioxid and water vapor combine chemically with the iron, and form what is known as a basic hydroxid or carbonate of iron.
Carbon occurs in the atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxid or carbonic acid gas.
The carbon dioxid evolved distends the stomach, and its outline can easily be determined by percussion.
This prepares a fresh solution of sodium hypobromite with excess of caustic soda, which serves to absorb the carbon dioxid set free in the decomposition of urea.
The artificial sea-salt baths and carbon dioxid baths may do some good, but they do not lower the general blood pressure so surely as has been advocated, and probably no great advantage is apt to be derived from such baths.
As elsewhere stated, the improvised carbon dioxid bath, to stimulate the skin so as to reduce the blood pressure, is not satisfactory.
The carbon dioxid increase during exercise stimulates a greater circulation of oxygen in the tissues which later counteracts the normal increase in acid products.
If the shock occurs in ether or chloroform anesthesia, the vasopressor stimulating effect of inhalations of carbon dioxid gas may be considered, as advised by Henderson.
After a few baths have been taken, the carbon dioxid baths are commenced, beginning with a small quantity of the gas which is later gradually increased.
After a rest from the exercise, the extra amount of carbon dioxid is eliminated from the blood, the suprarenal glands decrease their activity, and the blood pressure falls.
All of them liberate carbon dioxid gas, but the products left in the food differ widely in nature and amount[69].
In regions where limestone predominates, the carbon dioxid in water acts as a solvent, producing hard waters.
The most common adulterants are starch, cocoa shells, and occasionally iron dioxid and other pigments to give color, also foreign fats to replace the fat removed and to give the required plasticity for molding.
The baking powder is mixed dry with flour, and when this is moistened the carbon dioxid that is liberated expands the dough.
Waters that are hard on account of the presence of calcium carbonate give a deposit when boiled, due to liberation of the carbon dioxid which is the material that renders the lime soluble.
Provision should be made for the removal of the carbon dioxid and other products, as they contaminate the air.
When the alcoholic ferments secreted by the yeast plant act upon the invert sugars and produce alcoholic fermentation, carbon dioxid is one of the products formed.
Carbon dioxid and alcohol are produced in the largest amounts of any of the compounds formed during bread making.
Starch cannot be converted directly into alcohol and carbon dioxid gas; it must first be changed into dextrose sugars, and these undergo alcoholic fermentation.
About equal weights of carbon dioxid and alcohol are produced during the fermentation.
Ordinarily about 1 per cent of carbon dioxid gas is generated and lost during bread making.
Production of carbon dioxid gas, alcohol, and soluble carbohydrates as the result of ferment action.
Treatment is chiefly surgical and consists in laying the infected areas wide open by free incision, followed by a liberal application of a 30 per cent solution of hydrogen dioxid and subsequently a 5 per cent solution of carbolic acid.
The carbon dioxid unites with the lime in the blood to form carbonate of lime, and in this state passes into the urine.
The moment the circulation through the navel string is stopped the blood of the calf begins to become overcharged with carbon dioxid (CO{2}), and unless breathing is speedily established death promptly follows.
This is derived mainly from the lime in the feed and water and from the carbon dioxid formed by the oxidation of the organic acids in the fodder.
Iodine on a water bath until all iodin had volatilized was dissolved in water, acidulated with phosphoric acid, and hydrogen dioxid solution added.
The tablets were treated with dilute hydrochloric acid and the odor of sulphur dioxid became apparent.
An excess of bromine water is added, and the mixture boiled to expel carbon dioxid and bromine.
Adding a pinch of manganese dioxid to the hot sulphuric acid mixture caused an evolution of iodin fumes.
By the time you let your ribs sink again, the air has given its oxygen to the blood, and the blood has poured its carbon-dioxid smoke into the air bags for you to breathe out.
The carbon dioxid "smoke," as we have already learned, is carried in the blood to the lungs, where it passes off in the breath.
The worst impurities in air are those that come from our own breaths and our own bodies; and, unexpectedly enough, carbon dioxid is not one of them.
They burn very clean; that is, almost the whole of them is turned into carbon dioxid gas and water.
There are several ways of lightening bread with carbon dioxid gas.
This is what gives bread its well-known spongy or porous texture; but the tiny cells and holes in it are filled, not with air, but with carbon dioxid gas.
As long as these powders are kept dry, they will not act upon each other; but as soon as they are moistened in the dough, they begin to give off carbon dioxid gas.
With the carbon dioxid it is poured by the body cells into the veins, carried to the heart, and pumped through the lungs, where the carbon dioxid is thrown off.
All day long we are making more carbon dioxid than the oxygen we breathe in can take care of; while we sleep, the situation is reversed--the oxygen is gaining on the carbon dioxid.
These eagerly pick out all the decaying vegetable substances of the water and feed upon them, changing them into harmless carbon dioxid water, and small amounts of ammonia.
The carbon dioxid is a waste substance which the tissues produce by their activity, and which the blood carries away from them.
It is now evident that if this interchange is to continue, the air in the cells must be constantly renewed, its oxygen restored, and its excess of carbon dioxid removed.
That is to say, the blood in its progress through the lungs has rid itself of its excess of carbon dioxid and obtained a fresh supply of oxygen.
Water contains only two elements, hydrogen and oxygen; and carbon dioxid also has only two, carbon and oxygen.
The labored breathing of suffocation and of lung diseases is due to the excessive stimulation of this center, caused by the excess of carbon dioxid in the blood.
About the same amount of carbon dioxid is expelled, and this could be represented by a piece of pure charcoal weighing 9 ounces.
Some carbon dioxid passes out through the skin, but not more than 1/50 as much as escapes by the lungs.
Now, the tissues are continually feeding on the life-giving oxygen, and at the same time are continually producing carbon dioxid and other waste products.
It is not the carbon dioxid alone that causes injurious results to health, it is more especially the organic matter thrown off in the expired air.
It is stimulated by an excess of carbon dioxidin the blood, and is quieted by the presence of oxygen.
Blood containing oxygen and carbon dioxid is flowing in countless tiny streams through the walls of the air cells of the lungs.
The A liquid will soon become cloudy, because the carbondioxid of the expired air throws down the lime held in solution.
An investigation by Gould[175] also demonstrated that roasted coffee gives off carbon dioxid and carbon monoxid upon standing.
It is even doubtful whether De Mattia's[166] process for roasting until the vapors evolved produce a violet color when passed into a solution of fuchsin decolorized with sulphur dioxid is commercially reliable.
Also, it would appear from Gould's[179] work that roasted coffee evolves carbon dioxid until a certain positive pressure is attained, regardless of the initial pressure in the container.
Qualitative tests indicated the presence of boric acid, sulphuric acid, sulphur dioxid and traces each, of a nitrate, potassium and some unidentified organic matter.
No odor suggestive of cinnamon was observed even after the sulphur dioxid had been fixed by the addition of an alkali.
They form carbon dioxid and water—when you “see your breath” on a cold day, you merely see the water in it that came from your exploding muscles.
The carbon dioxidleaks out into the blood; and the blood, circulating thru the body, carries it to a certain nerve center high up in the back of the neck.
The yeast of beer also, turns the sugar of the grain into carbon dioxid and alcohol.
In the muscles, still another enzyme helps it to explode into carbon dioxid and water, only sometimes it forms lactic acid instead, which is the acid of sour milk.
Unfortunately, we cannot live altogether on these clean-burning fats and starches and sugars, which explode to carbon dioxid and water, and leave nothing more behind than a wax candle when it burns.
Gasoline, when it burns clean, changes to water and to the odorless and slightly tangy gas which we get in soda water, carbon dioxid as it is called.
The lowly creatures which breath the air in the water, send their carbondioxid back into the water again.
Poisons as before, only this time it is largely the carbondioxid that does the business.
Rains or flowing water gather the carbon dioxid from the atmosphere and the soil; few natural waters are free from it.
Leaves have the power of absorbing the gas carbon dioxid from the air and separating the carbon from the oxygen.
In this way the action of water, holding in solution carbon dioxid and other substances, tends to make the soil more fertile.
Whenever coal or wood or any carbonaceous substance burns, carbon dioxid is formed.
Although the carbon dioxid you breathe out is heavier than the rest of the air, part of it goes up and mixes with the air above.
This dissolves in the underground water, and when the water bubbles up from the ground and the pressure is released, the carbon dioxid foams out of the water; it effervesces like the charged water at a soda fountain.
One of the essentials in explosives is some compound of oxygen (such as the manganese dioxid or potassium chlorate you used to make oxygen in Experiment 93) which will easily set its oxygen free.
In crowded and badly ventilated rooms carbon dioxid in unusual amounts is in the air.
The carbon dioxid tries to bubble up out of the dough, and the bubbles make little holes all through the dough.
These iron tanks of carbon dioxid (CO2) are shipped to soda-water fountains and soda-bottling works.
Whenever you neutralize an acid with baking soda or washing soda, the carbon dioxid in the soda bubbles up and you have effervescence.
The corpuscles carry part of the carbon dioxid back to the lungs, and the water is carried with other wastes and the rest of the carbon dioxidin the liquid part of the blood.
Another chemical change, greatly helped by solution, is the combining of the two things that baking powder is made of, and the setting free of the carbon dioxid (CO2) that is in one of them.
Sidenote: The diet governs the production and the accumulation of body-waste] The common laws of health demand that sufficient motion be taken every day to prevent the accumulation of carbon dioxid or waste matter throughout the body.
A runner, who falls exhausted from shortness of breath, has simply been suffocated by the excess of carbon dioxid in his muscles.
In the ultimate decomposition of organic matter the carbon appears in the form of carbon dioxid which when combined with water forms carbonic acid.
By these circulation processes the supply of carbon dioxid in the atmosphere is renewed and maintained without any special effort on the part of man.
Well, I understand that both oxygen and hydrogen are furnished by natural processes, the oxygen from carbon dioxid in the carbon cycle, and the hydrogen from the water which falls in rain.
Everywhere over the earth the atmosphere contains some carbon dioxid and this compound furnishes all agricultural plants their necessary supply of both carbon and oxygen.
The oxygen from the water and part of that from the carbon dioxid is given off into the air through the breathing pores, while the carbon, hydrogen, and part of the oxygen, unite to form the carbohydrates.
All decay of organic matter, as in the fermentation of manure in the pile and the rotting of vegetable matter in the soil, is a form of slow combustion and carbondioxid is the chief produce of such decay.
The final oxidation products of the carbon and hydrogen are carbon dioxid and water, which result from the decomposition of the carbonic acid.
The body heat and the animal force or energy are supplied by the combustion of organic food within the body, and here, too, carbon dioxid is the chief product of combustion.
This element oxygen enters the vent of the stove and the compound carbon dioxid passes off through the chimney.
Water is taken into the plant through the roots and decomposed in the leaves in contact with the carbon dioxidunder the influence of sunlight and the life principle.
At the present time there is no simple and direct method of measuring organic vapor, and because this vapor increases in the atmosphere proportionately to the carbon dioxid gas, it is much simpler to measure the latter.
But it is known that in the lungs the life-giving oxygen is changed to carbon dioxid, and that just as carbon dioxid gas will prevent the combustion of a candle flame, so carbon dioxid gas will destroy the life of man.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dioxid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
