Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Not to be confused with carbolic acid an antiquated name for phenol.Carbonic acid is also an archaic name for carbon dioxide.Carbonic acid is the chemical compound with the formula H2CO3 (equivalently OC(OH)2). It is also a name sometimes given to solutions of carbon dioxide in water (carbonated water) because such solutions contain small amounts of H2CO3.
