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 ...

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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 ...

Some people love carbonated drinks so much that they can't live without them, but why exactly is that? As usual, there's ...

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 ...

How can we determine whether carbon dioxide is actually being used or expelled by a plant or an animal? Carbon dioxide dissolves in (and reacts with) water, forming carbonic acid. As this acid forms, ...