Synonyms for carbon dioxide

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].

noun colorless odorless gas

Example sentences :

He there amused himself with experiments on carbon dioxide (fixed air).
Extract from : « Priestley in America » by Edgar F. Smith

Find the number of volumes of carbon dioxide in 10,000 volumes of the air.
Extract from : « An Elementary Study of Chemistry » by William McPherson

Carbon dioxide is incombustible, since it is, like water, a product of combustion.
Extract from : « An Elementary Study of Chemistry » by William McPherson

Saturate the residue, when cold, with carbon dioxide and redistil.
Extract from : « The Elements of Bacteriological Technique » by John William Henry Eyre

Breathing also removes the carbon dioxide, which results from the combustion.
Extract from : « Physics » by Willis Eugene Tower

There are also minute quantities of carbon dioxide, aqueous vapour, and ammonia.
Extract from : « Getting Gold » by J. C. F. Johnson

Carbon dioxide (CO²) is absorbed by a solution of caustic potash.
Extract from : « Inventors at Work » by George Iles

This test proves the presence in the jar of a gas, known as carbon dioxide.
Extract from : « A Civic Biology » by George William Hunter

This change is due to some extent to the expulsion of the carbon dioxide from the milk.
Extract from : « Outlines of dairy bacteriology » by H. L. Russell

The carbon dioxide output, however, did not even double in summer.
Extract from : « Astounding Stories, May, 1931 » by Various

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