A text-book on chemistry. For the use of schools and colleges (1866)
Draper, Henry, 1837-1882 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 308
-ter, though that liquid absorbs its own vol-ume at the ordinary pressure. Carbonic acid is abundantly formed in many pro-cesses. It is the result of the complete combustion ofcarbonaceous bodies; is evolved during the respirationof animals and in alcoholic fermentation. It was calledfixed air by… … 296 PROPERTIES OF CARBONIC ACID. It is a colorless and transparent gas at common tem-peratures, with a faint smell and slightly acid taste. Itis irrespirable, and acts in a diluted state as a narcoticpoison; even air, containing one tenth of its volume,produces a marked effect; the atmosphere…
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