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 ...

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 ...

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Jovine, the cofounder and chief scientist of Brilliant Planet, is trying to engineer high-growth microalgae strains to ...

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The final proof of this was the work of Pasteur, who showed that the conversion of sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid is a physiological action of the yeast cell. Later on, Buchner discovered ...

On a bitterly cold August night in 1872, a young family of four fatally suffocated from the fumes of burnt charcoal as they huddled together in the one bed inside a home near Crookwell. A small ...

Modern cataract surgery is a safe, effective procedure, but it wasn't always this way. The earliest record dates back to the fifth century BC.

Third, methods that rely on measuring cations may be prone to misinterpretation as cations will often not be balanced with dissolved inorganic carbon, e.g., during strong acid weathering. As another ...

The manufacturer said analysis by experts concluded the associated risk from the contamination was 'very low' but there are ...