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  2. Sodium carbonate - Wikipedia

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    By 1900, 90% of sodium carbonate was produced by the Solvay process, and the last Leblanc process plant closed in the early 1920s. [15] The second step of the Solvay process, heating sodium bicarbonate, is used on a small scale by home cooks and in restaurants to make sodium carbonate for culinary purposes (including pretzels and alkali noodles).

  3. Water-reactive substances - Wikipedia

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    A metal reacting with cold water will produce a metal hydroxide and hydrogen gas. However, if a metal reacts with steam, like magnesium, metal oxide is produced as a result of metal hydroxides splitting upon heating. [12] The hydroxides of calcium, strontium and barium are only slightly water-soluble but produce sufficient hydroxide ions to ...

  4. Sodium percarbonate - Wikipedia

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    Sodium percarbonate or sodium carbonate peroxide is a chemical substance with empirical formula Na 2 H 3 CO 6. It is an adduct of sodium carbonate ("soda ash" or "washing soda") and hydrogen peroxide (that is, a perhydrate ) whose formula is more properly written as 2 Na 2 CO 3 · 3 H 2 O 2 .

  5. Black snake (firework) - Wikipedia

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    A white mixture of sucrose and sodium bicarbonate will eventually turn black and the snake will grow about 15–50 centimetres (5.9–19.7 in) long after it is lit. [4] Three chemical reactions occur when the snake is lit. Sodium bicarbonate breaks down into sodium carbonate, water vapor, and carbon dioxide: [2] 2 NaHCO 3 (s) → Na 2 CO 3 (s ...

  6. Solvay process - Wikipedia

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    By the 1890s, Solvay-process plants produced the majority of the world's soda ash. In 1938 large deposits of the mineral trona were discovered near the Green River in Wyoming from which sodium carbonate can be extracted more cheaply than produced by the process. The original Solvay New York plant closed in 1986, replaced in the US by a factory ...

  7. Carbonate - Wikipedia

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    In more acid conditions, aqueous carbon dioxide, CO 2 (aq), is the main form, which, with water, H 2 O, is in equilibrium with carbonic acid – the equilibrium lies strongly towards carbon dioxide. Thus sodium carbonate is basic, sodium bicarbonate is weakly basic, while carbon dioxide itself is a weak acid.

  8. Chlorine production - Wikipedia

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    The sodium–mercury amalgam flows to the center cell, where it reacts with water to produce sodium hydroxide and regenerate the mercury. Mercury cell electrolysis, also known as the Castner–Kellner process, was the first method used at the end of the nineteenth century to produce chlorine on an industrial scale.

  9. Rebreather - Wikipedia

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    This reacts with the hydroxides to produce carbonates and water in an exothermic reaction. [6] In the intermediate reaction, the carbonic acid reacts exothermically with sodium hydroxide to form sodium carbonate and water: H 2 CO 3 + 2NaOH –> Na 2 CO 3 + 2H 2 O + heat.