carbonic acid gas
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Each person exhales about fourteen cubic feet of carbonic acid gas in an hour.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin
The carbon combines with oxygen into carbon dioxide, commonly called carbonic acid gas, the hydrogen and some more oxygen form steam, while the nitrogen is left out in the cold, so to speak.
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.
Water impregnated with carbonate of lime, for example, deposits that compound as soon as evaporation has carried off a certain percentage of the water itself, and the carbonic acid gas which it held.
From Geology by Geikie, James
Choke′damp, the carbonic acid gas given off by coal which accumulates in coal-mines, and may suffocate those exposed to it.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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
