Is baking soda a compound?

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Is baking soda a compound?

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Answer 1 · 2017-04-29T18:01:47

To a first approximation, $baking soda$ $"baking soda"$ is a pure chemical compound.

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The $baking soda$ $"baking soda"$ you use to make cakes, i.e. the commercial product, is (pure?) $sodium bicarbonate$ $"sodium bicarbonate"$ , i.e. $N a^{+}^{-} H C O_{3}$ $Na^(+)""^(-)HCO_3$ .

$Baking powder$ $"Baking powder"$ is another leavening agent, but it contains $cream of tartar$ $"cream of tartar"$ , i.e. $potassium ditartrate$ $"potassium ditartrate"$ , $K C_{4} H_{5} O_{6}$ $KC_4H_5O_6$ , a salt of a diacid. When you add baking soda to a cake batter, the acid in the batter, the butter and the eggs, is conceived to react with the carbonate to make $C O_{2}$ $CO_2$ , which raises the cake, and makes it fluffy and spongy. Yumm.

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