ANHYDRIDE • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Anhydride

... of the solar spectrum, simply by heating it to a red heat, and then plunging it into a jar of oxygen gas. It immediately expands, changes into a coky mass, and burns away. The product left behind is a mixture of carbon and oxygen, in the proportions in which it is met with in carbonic-anhydride, or, carbonic acid gas deprived of its water. This is indeed a strange transformation, from the most valuable of all our precious stones to a compound which is the same in chemical constituents as the poisonous gas which we and all animals exhale. But there is this to be said. Probably in the ...

— The Story of a Piece of Coal - What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes • Edward A. Martin