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Webster 1913 Edition
Sodium bicarbonate
Sodium bicarbonate
,a white crystalline substance,
HNaCO3
, with a slight alkaline taste resembling that of sodium carbonate. It is found in many mineral springs and also produced artificially,. It is used in cookery, in baking powders, and as a source of carbonic acid gas (carbon dioxide) for soda water. Called also baking soda
, cooking soda
, bicarbonate of soda
, bicarb
, saleratus
, and technically, acid sodium carbonate
, sodium acid carbonate
, primary sodium carbonate
, sodium dicarbonate
, etc.