A new study provides valuable new insight into aqueous carbonic acid with important implications for both geological and biological concerns. Though it garners few public headlines, carbonic acid, the ...

Russian chemists have discovered that some exotic compounds may be formed in high pressure environments like those found inside Uranus, Neptune and other gas giant planets and their moons. The finding ...

Each year, billions upon billions of tons of CO2 are pumped into the atmosphere. A significant proportion of this ends up in Earth’s oceans, where it can react with water to form carbonic acid, which ...

The most common process by which limestone caves form involves carbonic acid — or weakly acidic groundwater — as the primary agent. When carbonic acid contacts limestone, it dissolves minerals in the ...

Researchers report the first detailed characterization of the hydration structure of carbonic dioxide gas as it dissolves in water to form carbonic acid. Though carbonic acid exists for only a ...

An important component of amino acids known as carbonic acid has been spotted in space for the first time. Carboxylic acids, of which carbonic acid is an example, form the backbone of amino acids, ...

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