baking soda

     

Decomposes aroun 50 °C

Trivia about baking soda

  • This leavening agent has been sold in boxes bearing an arm & hammer logo since 1867
  • Your dry chemical household fire extinguisher likely contains sodium bicarbonate, known as this in the kitchen
  • The "soda" in the name of Irish soda bread refers to the use of this leavener
  • A paste made with this cooking ingredient is recommended to soothe the pain of an insect sting
  • This cooking ingredient, AKA sodium bicarbonate, may be used to clean stainless steel sinks
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from inside a science lab.) To make cake batter rise, you need to create a chemical reaction by combining an acid like buttermilk with this alkaline compound--NaHCO3