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Posted by Nisha Singh 5 years ago
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Gaurav Seth 5 years ago
(1) It is used as an antacid in medicine to remove acidity of the stomach. (2) It is used in making baking powder. Baking powder is a mixture of baking soda and a mild edible tartaric acid. When baking soda mixes with water,then sodium hydrogen carbonate reacts with tartaric acid to evolve carbon dioxide gas.
Yogita Ingle 5 years ago
- Baking soda (sodium hydrogencarbonate) undergoes reaction with mild edible acid such as tartaric acid to manufacture baking powder. This baking powder on heating undergoes following reaction.

- This carbon-dioxide produced makes bread or cake rise thereby making them soft and spongy.
- Being alkaline it is also an active ingredient in antacids that acts by neutralising the excess acid produced in the stomach.
- It is also used in soda-acid fire extinguishers.
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Shashwat Chaturvedi 5 years ago
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