"Carbon dioxide" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... energies surged. "We'll last until the oxygen is breathed up," he exclaimed. "We'll have four or five days, at most. But we seem to be traveling faster than an ocean liner. With luck, we'll be in Europe before we become carbon dioxide breathers." ...
— The Sky Trap • Frank Belknap Long
... food to repair the waste, to perform our work and to furnish heat. Every muscle contraction uses up a little energy. Every breath deprives us of heat and carries away carbon dioxide, the latter being formed by oxidation of tissues in the body. Every minute we lose heat by radiation from the skin. Every thought requires a small amount of food. If we worry, the leak of nervous energy is tremendous, but ...
— Maintaining Health • R. L. Alsaker
... happen, but, if it does, you are 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 ...
— Anchorite • Randall Garrett
... the spectro-analyzer with its groupings of lines and light bands. "Carbon dioxide," he explained, "and some nitrogen, but mighty little of either. See the pressure ...
— The Finding of Haldgren • Charles Willard Diffin
... used in this book to indicate italics markup in the original, as in "Then he must hold on." The only exception to this is where it is used to indicate a subscript, specifically in H20 and CO2, the common chemical formulas for water and carbon dioxide referenced ...
— The Wall Street Girl • Frederick Orin Bartlett
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