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 ...

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

Beef tips can be tough to cook until perfectly tender, which is why ginger ale, packed with acidity, works well as a marinade ...

The rise in carbon dioxide levels in our atmosphere is also helping to acidify our oceans even further, resulting in more ...

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.

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 ...

Pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), a water-soluble B vitamin, is sometimes called the "anti-stress vitamin." It is required for the body to make coenzyme A (CoA). CoA is involved in many reactions, such ...

We describe the general background and the recent advances in research on underwater photosynthesis of leaf segments, whole communities, and plant dominated aquatic ecosystems and present contemporary ...

Photosynthesis is the process by which plants, algae and certain types of bacteria synthesise carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and typically water, using light as an energy source. The process ...