![]() In addition to cooking uses, baking soda can also serve as natural medicine. It is a cheap, readily available, and incredibly versatile. It is odorless, salty in taste and available as a white powder. It is extracted in its natural form, nahcolite, as a white or colorless carbonate mineral. It is mostly used in cooking and baking as a leavening agent, and as a very effective cleaning agent. It is a fine white powder that looks like icing sugar and it is a common ingredient in home baking recipes. It is categorized as an acid salt, formed by combining an acid (carbonic) and a base (sodium hydroxide), and it reacts with other chemicals as a mild alkali. It is better known to chemist as sodium bicarbonate, bicarbonate of soda, sodium hydrogen carbonate or sodium acid carbonate. ![]() Its formula consists of one sodium (Na) atom, one hydrogen (H) atom, one carbon (C) atom and three oxygen (O) atoms. Baking soda or sodium bicarbonate in scientific terms is a chemical compound with the formula NaHCO3. ![]()
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