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Definition of Carbonic acid

1. Noun. A weak acid known only in solution; formed when carbon dioxide combines with water.

Definition of Carbonic acid

1. Noun. a weak unstable acid, H₂CO₃, known only in solution, and as carbonate salts; it is present in carbonated drinks, and sparkling wine, but decomposes to form carbon dioxide and water ¹

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Medical Definition of Carbonic acid

1. Carbonic acid (h2c03). The hypothetical acid of carbon dioxide and water. It exists only in the form of its salts (carbonates), acid salts (hydrogen carbonates), amines (carbamic acid), and acid chlorides (carbonyl chloride). Chemical name: Carbonic acid (12 Dec 1998)

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Literary usage of Carbonic acid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Philosophical Magazine (1830)
"The carbonic acid was absorbed by barytes water, and the carbonate precipitated was estimated to contain 22 per cent, of carbonic acid. ..."

2. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"Water without carbonic acid does not occur, as this gas is always absorbed ... The presence of carbonic acid is betrayed by a turbidity which appears in a ..."

3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1874)
""On the Absorption of carbonic acid by Saline Solutions." By JY BUCHANAN, Chemist on board HMS ' Challenger.' Communicated by Professor AW WILLIAMSON, For. ..."

4. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1893)
"The Exit of carbonic acid. § 358. It seems natural to suppose that the carbonic ... But in order that diffusion should thus take place, the carbonic acid ..."

5. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"An excess of standard barium hydroxide solution is added to the water containing the carbonic acid. Barium carbonate is precipitated as shown in the ..."

6. The Lancet (1839)
"ID another experiment a green linnet died in tea minutes, where only seven per cent, of oxygen were abstracted. He had found that when carbonic acid gas ..."

7. The Chemical Constitution of the Proteins by Robert Henry Aders Plimmer (1908)
"If carbonic acid be passed into the solution of the barium salt, barium carbonate is not, as would be expected, immediately formed ; the solution remains ..."

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