carbonic acid

English

Carbonic acid

Noun

carbonic acid (uncountable)

1. (inorganic chemistry) A weak unstable acid, H₂CO₃, known only in solution, and as carbonate salts; it is present in carbonated drinks, and sparkling wine, but decomposes to form carbon dioxide and water.

   Synonym: H₂CO₃

   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 110–111:

     Had she lived now, she would have talked of the last delightful lecture on gas, or the charming new treatise on carbonic acid; she would have studied German, and delighted in the society of "talented people."

   • 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 144:

     [I]t sank down through the air and poured over the ground in a manner rather liquid than gaseous, abandoning the hills, and streaming into the valleys and ditches and water-courses even as I have heard the carbonic acid gas that pours from volcanic clefts is wont to do.

2. (obsolete) Carbon dioxide.

Derived terms

• carbonic acid gas
• carbonic acid snow
• hemicarbonic acid

 

Translations

A weak unstable acid, H₂CO₃

• Armenian: ածխաթթու (hy) (acxatʻtʻu)
• Catalan: àcid carbònic m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 碳酸 (zh) (tànsuān)

• Czech: kyselina uhličitá f
• Danish: kulsyre c
• Dutch: koolzuur (nl) n, diwaterstofcarbonaat (nl) n
• Esperanto: karbonika acido, karbonata acido
• Faroese: kolsýra f
• Finnish: hiilihappo (fi)
• French: acide carbonique (fr) m
• German: Kohlensäure (de) f
• Greek: ανθρακικό οξύ (el) n (anthrakikó oxý)
• Gujarati: અંગારકામ્લ (aṅgārkāmla)
• Hungarian: szénsav (hu)
• Icelandic: kolsýra (is) f
• Irish: aigéad carbónach m
• Italian: acido carbonico (it) m
• Japanese: 炭酸 (ja) (たんさん, tansan)
• Korean: 탄산 (ko) (tansan)
• Limburgish: kaolzoer (li) n
• Malay: asid karbonik
• Maori: waikawa waro
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: karbonsyre m or f, kullsyre m or f

• Polish: kwas węglowy (pl) m
• Portuguese:

  Brazilian: ácido carbônico m

  European: ácido carbónico m

• Romanian: acid carbonic (ro)
• Russian: углекислота́ (ru) f (uglekislotá), у́гольная кислота́ (ru) f (úgolʹnaja kislotá)
• Slovak: kyselina uhličitá f
• Spanish: ácido carbónico m
• Swedish: kolsyra (sv) c
• Thai: กรดคาร์บอนิก (th)
• Turkish: karbonik asit (tr)