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English
Etymology
From carbon + -ic.
Pronunciation
Adjective
carbonic (not comparable)
- Of or relating to carbon.
1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 144:t sank down through the air and poured over the ground in a manner rather liquid than gaseous, abandoning the hills, and streaming into the valleys and ditches and water-courses even as I have heard the carbonic acid gas that pours from volcanic clefts is wont to do.
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French carbonique.
Pronunciation
Adjective
carbonic m or n (feminine singular carbonică, masculine plural carbonici, feminine and neuter plural carbonice)
- carbonic
Declension