Abstract
The gas CO2 is quite soluble in water in which more than 99% exists as the dissolved gas and less than 1% as carbonic acid H2CO3, which partly dissociates to give H+, HCO −3 , and CO 2 −3 . The subsequent contributions deal with the central role CO2 plays in the living organism, whereas here we restrict ourselves to the reaction between CO2 and water.
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Knoche, W. (1980). Chemical Reactions of CO2 in Water. In: Bauer, C., Gros, G., Bartels, H. (eds) Biophysics and Physiology of Carbon Dioxide. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67572-0_1
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