Re: carbonic acid

Salmon Egg wrote:

When I was in London over two decades ago, I visited the Science
Museum which IIRC was located in Kensington. One of the exhibits
was a glass cylinder of liquid carbon dioxide. The viewer could
heat it up and watch the meniscus disappear. It looked it had
been there a long time. I presume that it is still there.

Possibly, fused silica, not glass?

I'm a bit skeptical it could have been glass.

Especially, if it had been there for a long time.
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