Baking Soda
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Baking Powder
Baking Soda
What Is Baking Soda?
This household item has been around for thousands of years, it is very good for uses in and around the home, and has quite a number of different uses. It is well known and widely used, and can also be known by the names bread soda, cooking soda, and bicarbonate soda.
The Chemical Name for Baking Soda Is Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate and the Chemical Formula Is NaHCO3
What Is It Used For
It is commonly used as an antacid in cooking as it reacts with acidic ingredients such as buttermilk and yogurt. It can also neutralize both acids and bases and id often used to mop small chemical spills involving acidic or basic substances
The Reaction with Vinegar
Baking Soda reacts vigorously with vinegar to produce Carbon Dioxide (CO2). The chemical equation for this reaction is Sodium bicarbonate and vinegar => Sodium acetate and water and carbon dioxide
NaHCO3 + CH3COOH => CH3COO-Na+ + H2O + CO2

Baking Powder

Baking powder is a dry chemical leavening agent, a mixture of a weak alkali and a weak acid, and is used for increasing the volume and lightening the texture of baked goods. Baking powder works by releasing carbon dioxide gas into a batter or dough through an acid-base reaction, causing bubbles in the wet mixture to expand and thus leavening the mixture. It is used instead of yeast for end-products where fermentation flavours would be undesirable or where the batter lacks the elastic structure to hold gas bubbles for more than a few minutes. Because carbon dioxide is released at a faster rate through the acid-base reaction than through fermentation, breads made by chemical leavening are called quick breads.
The Chemical Name for Baking Powder Is Sodium Bicarbonate And the Chemical Equations Is NaHCO3 + H+ → Na+ + CO2 + H2O What do you keep the same (fair test)? * The Cubicle