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... still with your boat, rather than deserted on a rock for the rest of your life—which wouldn't be very long. When the power unit in your suit ran out of energy, it would stop breaking your exhaled carbon dioxide down into carbon and oxygen, and you would suffocate. Even with emergency tanks of oxygen, you would soon find yourself freezing to death. That sun up there isn't very warm, ...

— Anchorite • Randall Garrett

... external application of heat is necessary. At first the liquid is quite clear, but in a few minutes a brown solid substance commences to separate, and in three hours the reaction is complete. The substance is freed from carbon bisulphide in a current of carbon dioxide, the last traces being removed by means of the Sprengel pump. The compound thus obtained is a deep red amorphous powder, readily capable of volatilization. It melts between 190 deg. and 200 deg.. When heated in vacuo it commences to volatilize about ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 • Various

... and the pipe for the condenser. We brought that and the glass, the cement, more lumber, and the drum of sulphur dioxide. There are two more ...

— The Forbidden Trail • Honore Willsie

Words linked to "Dioxide" : carbonic acid gas, oxide, CO2