carbon dioxide

English

Alternative forms

carbon dioxid, carbondioxid

Noun

carbon dioxide (uncountable)

(inorganic chemistry) The normal oxide of carbon, CO₂; a colorless, odorless gas formed during respiration and combustion and consumed by plants during photosynthesis.
- 2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist:
  Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.

Synonyms

carbonic acid gas
CO₂
E290 when used as an acidity regulator

Derived terms

carbon dioxide snow

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CO₂

Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: ثَانِي أُكْسِيد الْكَرْبُون‎ m (ṯānī ʾuksīd al-karbūn)
Armenian: ածխաթթու գազ (hy) (acxatʿtʿu gaz), ածխածնի երկօքսիդ (hy) (acxacni erkōkʿsid)
Basque: karbono dioxido, anhidrido karboniko
Bengali: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: въглероден диоксид m (vǎgleroden dioksid)
Catalan: diòxid de carboni m, biòxid de carboni, anhídrid carbònic
Chinese:
Cantonese: 二氧化碳 (ji⁶ yoeng⁵ faa³ taan³)

Mandarin: 二氧化碳 (zh) (èryǎnghuàtàn)

Min Nan: 二酸化炭素 (jī-sng-hoà thoàⁿ-sò͘), 二氧化碳 (zh-min-nan) (jī-iông-hòa-thòaⁿ)
Czech: oxid uhličitý (cs) m
Danish: kuldioxid
Dutch: kooldioxide (nl)
Esperanto: karbona dioksido
Estonian: süsinikdioksiid, süsihappegaas
Faroese: koltvísúrni n
Finnish: hiilidioksidi (fi)
French: anhydride carbonique (fr) m, dioxyde de carbone (fr) m, gaz carbonique (fr) m (as a gas)
Galician: dióxido de carbono (gl) m
Georgian: ნახშირორჟანგი (naxširoržangi)
German: Kohlenstoffdioxid (de) n, Kohlendioxyd n (colloquial) , Kohlendioxid (de) n
Greek: διοξείδιο του άνθρακα (el) (dioxeídio tou ánthraka)
Hebrew: פַּחְמָן דּוּ חַמְצָנִי‎ (he) m (paḥmán du ḥamtzaní), דּוּ תַּחְמֹצֶת הַפַּחְמָן‎ (he) m (du taḥmótzet hapaḥmán)
Hindi: प्रांगार द्विजारेय (praangaar dvijaareya), अंगाराम्लवायु (angaaraamlavaayu)
Hungarian: szén-dioxid (hu)
Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
Irish: dé-ocsaíd charbóin f

Italian: anidride carbonica (it) f, diossido di carbonio m
Japanese: 二酸化炭素 (ja) (にさんかたんそ, nisanka-tanso)
Korean: 이산화탄소 (ko) (isanhwatanso) (二酸化炭素 (ko))
Latin: dioxydum carbonicum
Latvian: ogļskābā gāze, oglekļa dioksīds
Macedonian: please add this translation if you can
Malay: karbon dioksida
Manx: daa-ocseed charboan m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: karbondioksid n

Nynorsk: karbondioksid n
Polish: dwutlenek węgla (pl) m
Portuguese: dióxido de carbono, gás carbônico m
Romanian: bioxid de carbon m, dioxid de carbon m
Russian: двуо́кись углеро́да (ru) f (dvuókisʹ ugleróda), углеки́слый газ (ru) m (uglekíslyj gaz)
Sanskrit: अङ्गाराम्लवायु (angaaraamlavaayu)
Scottish Gaelic: carbon dà-ogsaid m, gualan dà-ogsaid m
Serbo-Croatian: ugljik dioksida
Sindhi: ڏوناڪسِيوَر ڪاربان‎ (sd) f
Slovak: oxid uhličitý m
Slovene: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: bióxido de carbono, anhídrido carbónico, dióxido de carbono
Swedish: koldioxid (sv)
Tagalog: karbon daluksad
Tamil: கரியமில வாயு/வளி (kariyamila vāyu/vaḷi)
Telugu: బొగ్గుపులుసు వాయువు (boggupulusu vāyuvu)
Thai: คาร์บอนไดออกไซด์ (th)
Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
Welsh: carbon deuocsid (cy) m

carbon dioxide

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