carbonic acid gas
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A‰rated bread, bread raised by charging dough with carbonic acid gas, instead of generating the gas in the dough by fermentation.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
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 Corbin, Thomas W.
You see, fresh air is composed of three parts, oxygen and nitrogen and carbonic acid gas.
From Seed-time and Harvest A Novel by Reuter, Fritz
Colic is occasioned by a want of physiological power in the organs of digestion, so that the food, instead of undergoing a chemico-vital process, runs into fermentation, by which process carbonic acid gas is evolved.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George
Its respiratory function consists in allowing oxygen and carbonic acid gas to pass by osmosis between the embryonic and the maternal blood.
From Embryology The Beginnings of Life by Leighton, Gerald R.
