Chapter

 1 IX   |     combined with cold nitric acid, become transformed into
 2 IX   |     fifteen minutes in nitric acid, then washing it in water,
 3 XXIII|      equal volume of carbonic acid, produced by the combustion
 4 XXIII|      replaced by the carbonic acid— a gas fatal to life. There
 5 XXIII|  destroy the expired carbonic acid; both easy enough to do,
 6 XXIII|   great affinity for carbonic acid; and it is sufficient to
 7 XXIII|      for it to seize upon the acid and form bicarbonate of
 8 III  |      must absorb the carbonic acid produced by expiration.
 9 III  |       painfully. The carbonic acid, by a phenomenon similar
10 III  | substance, greedy of carbonic acid, soon completely absorbed
11 VII  |       Not an atom of carbonic acid resisted the potash; and
12 VII  | Florida? Is cotton and nitric acid wanted wherewith to manufacture
13 VII  |   cork driven out by carbonic acid; their gestures became annoying,