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CARBONIC ACID

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 309 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CARBONIC

ACID  , in chemistry, properly H2CO3, the acid assumed to be formed when carbon dioxide is dissolved in
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water; its salts are termed
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carbonates . The name is also given to the neutral carbon dioxide from its power of forming salts with oxides, and on account of the acid nature of its solution; and, although not systematic, this use is very
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common .

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