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Grammar : Noun |
Définition of carbon-dioxide
Origin :- 1869, so called because it consists of one carbon and two oxygen atoms. The chemical was known since mid-18c. under the name fixed air; later as carbonic acid gas (1791). "The term dioxide for an oxide containing two atoms of oxygen came into use in the middle of the 19th century." [Flood].
- As in carbon dioxide : noun colorless odorless gas
- The reduction of the carbon-dioxide would be even more gradual.
- Extract from : « The Story of Evolution » by Joseph McCabe
- Then air-rejuvenator apparatus reseparated it from the carbon-dioxide you exhaled, so that you could use it over and over.
- Extract from : « Comet's Burial » by Raymond Zinke Gallun
- A part is expelled by the lungs as carbon-dioxide, or as it is generally though less correctly termed, carbonic acid.
- Extract from : « The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition » by A. W. Duncan
- Every molecule of carbon-dioxide that crystallized out took two atoms of oxygen with it, completely out of circulation.
- Extract from : « Let'em Breathe Space » by Lester del Rey
- In the form of carbon-dioxide the leaves eat up the carbon and oxygen from the atmosphere.
- Extract from : « Beautiful Bulbous Plants » by John Weathers
- The warmth and the habitability of the earth's surface is due to the presence of water-vapor and carbon-dioxide in the atmosphere.
- Extract from : « Astronomy for Young Folks » by Isabel Martin Lewis
- They contained a carbon-dioxide cartridge and could be inflated simply by squeezing them, which punctured the cartridge.
- Extract from : « The Wailing Octopus » by Harold Leland Goodwin
- Depressions in the carbon-dioxide snow where the hundred-foot pad-feet of ships' landing-legs had pressed down.
- Extract from : « Space Viking » by Henry Beam Piper
- But the planetesimal hypothesis has no room for this enormous percentage of carbon-dioxide in the primitive atmosphere.
- Extract from : « The Story of Evolution » by Joseph McCabe
- Whatever excess of carbon-dioxide there may have been in the early atmosphere was cleared by the Coal-forests.
- Extract from : « The Story of Evolution » by Joseph McCabe
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