Re: CO2/H2CO3 equilibrium

• To: psears at nrcan_gc.ca (Paul Sears)
• Subject: Re: CO2/H2CO3 equilibrium
• From: Bill Warner <lww at ictech_com>
• Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 20:49:45 -0500
• cc: Aquatic Plants Digest <Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com>
• In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 May 1996 09:56:51 -0400."

Paul Sears writes:
>	Right on!  I think I should point out, though, that the reaction of
>CO2 with water to give H2CO3 is considered slow by chemists, because it
>takes seconds.  Many of the other reactions that interest us are orders of
>magnitude faster. [...]
>
Good points, Paul.  I know that I sometimes assume that everyone else knows
this stuff already.  Back in my grad school days we (the Inorganic Chemists)
had a standing joke that a slow reaction was one that you didn't have to be a
femtosecond-pulsed-laser-jock (ie. a Physical Chemist)<G> to study the
kinetics.

Bill

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