"Carbonic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is charged with gases under great pressure. As the water is forced to the surface, the pressure diminishes, and a portion of gas escapes with effervescence. The spouting wells deliver, therefore, enormous volumes of gas with the water, a perfect suds of water, carbonic ...
— Saratoga and How to See It • R. F. Dearborn
... everything! Instead of a single column of smoke he counted thirteen, forced through the soil as if violently propelled by some piston. It was evident that the crust of the earth was subjected in this part of the globe to a frightful pressure. The atmosphere was saturated with gases and carbonic acid, mingled with aqueous vapours. Cyrus Harding felt the volcanic tufa with which the plain was strewn, and which were but pulverised cinders hardened into solid blocks by time, tremble beneath him, but he could discover ...
— The Secret of the Island • W.H.G. Kingston (translation from Jules Verne)
... saying. "On an afternoon like this you might as well shut those children up in a family vault. Twenty of them, all breathing carbonic acid ...
— The Second Class Passenger • Perceval Gibbon
... dreadful lassitude was caused by the withdrawing of the life-giving oxygen from the air. The oxygen was still there, but combined with the carbon from lungs and blood to form carbonic acid gas, which, in large ...
— The Submarine Boys on Duty - Life of a Diving Torpedo Boat • Victor G. Durham
... plot of Lady Acton's malevolence for hunting Phoebe away from her home? Miss Fennimore fell asleep, uneasy and perplexed, and in her dreams beheld Phoebe as the Lady in Comus, fixed in her chair and resolute against a cup effervescing with carbonic acid gas, proffered by Jack Hastings, who thereupon gave it to Bertha, as she lay back in the dentist's chair, and both becoming transformed into pterodactyles, flew away while Miss Fennimore was vainly trying to summon the brothers ...
— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge
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