Characteristics and Important Uses of Carbon Dioxide and Dry Ice

Carbon dioxide is an inorganic gaseous carbon compound. As early as the 1600s, people had started to think about this gas, although they didn't know what it really was and what to call it. Flemish chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont made observations which hinted about the existence of carbon dioxide, setting the stage for breakthrough work in the 18th century by Joseph Black, a Scottish chemist who identified carbon dioxide and explored many of its properties. By the 1800s, scientists had succeeded in creating and studying other forms of carbon dioxide, such as its solid form.

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