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Six example sentences with carbonic, each labelled with its topic.
Rain picks up carbonic acid on the way down, which is how limestone caves slowly widen over millennia.
Science
The fizz in sparkling water comes from carbonic acid, which is why an open bottle tastes flat by morning.
Cooking
Oceans absorb so much of our exhaust that carbonic acid is lowering the pH and thinning oyster shells.
Environment
Eye doctors prescribe drops that block carbonic anhydrase, slowing fluid production and easing the pressure inside the eye.
Medicine
Hard intervals flood the blood with carbonic acid, and the burning urge to breathe faster is the body's answer.
Fitness
Nineteenth century chemists called the choking gas in coal mines carbonic acid gas, and mine safety reports used the older name for decades.
History
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