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carbonic acid gas

[kahr-bon-ik as-id] / kɑrˈbɒn ɪk ˈæs ɪd /
NOUN
carbon dioxide
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Possibly, what apostles and theologians call an angel a scientist knows as carbonic acid gas.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll

What are the properties of carbonic acid gas?

From A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers by Joseph Chrisman Hutchison

Has rum rendered them proof against the effect of carbonic acid gas?

From Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated by Solon Robinson

When the man exhales, as we all know, the air which he then discharges from his lungs is deficient in oxygen and instead contains carbonic acid gas.

From Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science by Thomas W. Corbin

The dead bodies of twenty-eight rats were the net result of this onslaught with carbonic acid gas.

From North-Pole Voyages by Zachariah Atwell Mudge


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