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Sodium bicarbonate   /sˈoʊdiəm baɪkˈɑrbənət/   Listen
Sodium bicarbonate

noun
1.
A white soluble compound (NaHCO3) used in effervescent drinks and in baking powders and as an antacid.  Synonyms: baking soda, bicarbonate of soda, saleratus, sodium hydrogen carbonate.






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"Sodium bicarbonate" Quotes from Famous Books



... Sodium Bicarbonate (NaHCO{3})is used as a flux in dry methods. On ignition it leaves the carbonate (Na{2}CO{3}), which is used as a standard reagent. Make a 20 per cent. solution of the carbonate for use. It should be free from chlorides or ...
— A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. • Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer

... for acid solutions has been the subject of much controversy. The work of Lunge (!Ztschr. angew. Chem.! (1904), 8, 231), Ferguson (!J. Soc. Chem. Ind.! (1905), 24, 784), and others, seems to indicate that the best standard is sodium carbonate prepared from sodium bicarbonate by heating the latter at temperature between 270 deg. and 300 deg.C. The bicarbonate is easily prepared in a pure state, and at the temperatures named the decomposition takes place according to ...
— An Introductory Course of Quantitative Chemical Analysis - With Explanatory Notes • Henry P. Talbot

... Salt is by all odds the most important sodium compound. Next to it come the so-called carbonates: first, sodium carbonate, which is already familiar to us as washing soda; and second, sodium bicarbonate, which is an ingredient of baking powders. These are both obtained from sodium chloride by relatively simple means; that is, by treating salt with the base, ammonia, and ...
— General Science • Bertha M. Clark



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