carbonic acid

I'm reading Maxwell's Theory of Heat and enjoying it quite a bit. I just
read his description of experiments on liquid-gas transitions of carbonic
acid. I guess I'm confused by one thing: I think of carbonic acid as
selzter and basically unstable. So, I don't understand why, in experiments
on delicate phase transitions in carbonic acid, the varmint doesn't just
release CO2. Can someone clarify this?
--
Ignorantly,
Allan Adler <ara@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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