| | CARBONIC ACID FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | → CO The equilibrium between carbon dioxide and carbonic acid is important for controlling the acidity of body fluids, and almost all living organisms have an enzyme, carbonic_anhydrase, which catalyzes the conversion between the two compounds, increasing the reaction rate by a factor of nearly 10 |
 | | This figure is often quoted as the dissociation constant of carbonic acid, although this is ambiguous: it might better be referred to as the acidity constant of carbon dioxide, as it |
 | | However, the acidity of rain water has important geological consequences for carbonate rocks such as chalk and limestone. |
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