fixed air

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Carbon dioxide; carbonic acid. historical,uncountable
    — The wild gas, the fixed air is plainly broke loose: but we ought to suspend our judgement until […] we see something deeper than the agitation of a troubled and disturbed surface.

词源

Coined by Scottish chemist Joseph Black in 1756 because it can be absorbed, or fixed, by strong bases.
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