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 ...

This reaction turns seawater into carbonic acid, reducing carbonate ions. These ions are essential for the formation of shells and skeletons of marine organisms.

In this activity, students will be able to explain that carbon dioxide from any source reacts chemically with water to form carbonic acid. They will also be able to use the color change of bromothymol ...

A team of chemists headed by Thomas Loerting from the University of Innsbruck and Hinrich Grothe from the Vienna University of Technology in Austria have prepared and isolated gas-phase carbonic ...

Recent research has unveiled a new mechanism that explains how carbon dioxide (CO₂) can react directly at water’s surface instead of fully dissolving first. This finding from Cambridge researchers has ...

Carboxylic acid, a chemical considered important to life, has been detected in interstellar space for the first time ever.

Arctic and Alpine Research, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Nov., 1977), pp. 329-343 (15 pages) The role of carbonic acid as a soil cation leaching agent was found to decrease as annual temperature decreased among ...

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 ...