Carbonic acid is a heavy gas —it extinguishes fire and destroys all animal life. If an animal attempts to breathe it pure, there is spasmodic closure of the glottis and the animal dies as ...

Carbon dioxide reacts with water to produce carbonic acid. The double arrow means that carbonic acid breaks down pretty readily to form carbon dioxide and water again. A hydrogen atom from the ...

IN contrast to the wealth of information concerning carbonic anhydrase in the animal kingdom, there have been few reports of the occurrence of this enzyme in the plant kingdom 1. It seemed ...

This is carbonic acid (H 2 CO 3), which can release a proton ... an intermediate reaction product is formed that prevents the formation of unwanted oxygen. "These results initially sound like ...

Collier) of the “London Mining Journal” imparts a piece of valuable information respecting the beneficial effects of lime-water to cure persons affected with carbonic acid gas. He states that ...

In practice, the weight of the grapes on the top crushes the grapes on the bottom and yeasts ferment the juice; the wine is partly a product of carbonic maceration and partly of traditional yeast ...