Talk:Carbonic acid

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What?
This is not accessible to a lay reader. Azbookmobile (talk) 16:55, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
 * So what do you propose for a solution? Also, if you look a a technical article in Encyclopedia Britannica you will find the same "problem". When I was a kid we had a neighbor who had a set of Britannicas. I was fascinated by them - stuff I did not understand challenged me to dig deeper and learn. When I graduated high school and got a job, my first purchase was a set of Britannicas -- and I learned. Vsmith (talk) 18:07, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Pressure dependence?
Random thought: is it more stable at pressure in the deep ocean? The reaction H2CO3 CO2 + H2O would sort of imply that it would be, assuming dissolved CO2 got down that far. Project Osprey (talk) 10:03, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
 * No expert here, but one has to assume that dissolved CO2 "gets that far" for sure, but I dont think that its partial pressure is greater at depth than at the surface. With all the interest in ocean acidification, smart people somewhere must be thinking of this aspect.  --Smokefoot (talk) 14:58, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
 * The article doesn't give a equilibrium constant for dissolved CO2 carbonic acid, but there must be one. Le Chatelier's principle would surely mean more carbonic acid at depth, but would that mean the ocean would be more acidic at depth? With the acidity just fizzing back out as you went up? It sounds reasonable but also weird. I don't think I'm right. --Project Osprey (talk) 15:53, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

Misuse of the phrase, boiling point
Materials that sublime have a melting point and a boiling point that coincide. The boiling point listed for carbonic acid is actually its decomposition temperature. I am new to commenting on Wikipedia articles, so I don't know if this is just an issue of article construction that was settled long ago. However, it would be more logical to enter enter "N/A" for the Boiling Point entry (or use the same value as listed in the Melting Point entry. Likewise, for materials that decompose upon heating, shouldn't there be a separate entry for Decomposition Point. 2601:647:CA00:F4B0:19AA:D1A6:EED0:515D (talk) 19:18, 18 April 2024 (UTC)