carbonic acid gas
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For a moment he hesitated, fearing the presence of carbonic acid gas, but on holding the lighted match close to the ground the flame burnt clear and bright.
From The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
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
Each person exhales about fourteen cubic feet of carbonic acid gas in an hour.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin
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 mineral waters are warm—from 70� to 118� F.,—contain large quantities of carbonic acid gas, and are used in chronic catarrhs, pulmonary complaints, diseases of the stomach, gout, and some diseases of the urinary vessels.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various
