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Sodium bicarbonate   /sˈoʊdiəm baɪkˈɑrbənət/   Listen
Sodium bicarbonate

noun
1.
A white soluble compound (NaHCO3) used in effervescent drinks and in baking powders and as an antacid.  Synonyms: baking soda, bicarbonate of soda, saleratus, sodium hydrogen carbonate.






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... patient, solids being added when demonstrated that no stagnation above the stricture occurs. Thorough mastication and the slow partaking of small quantities at a time are imperative. Should food accumulation occur, the esophagus should be emptied by regurgitation, following which a glassful of warm sodium bicarbonate solution is to be taken, and this also regurgitated if it does not go through promptly. The esophagus is thus lavaged and emptied. In all these cases, whether being fed through the mouth or the gastrostomic ...
— Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy - A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery • Chevalier Jackson

... standard for acid solutions has been the subject of much controversy. The work of Lunge (!Ztschr. angew. Chem.! (1904), 8, 231), Ferguson (!J. Soc. Chem. Ind.! (1905), 24, 784), and others, seems to indicate that the best standard is sodium carbonate prepared from sodium bicarbonate by heating the latter at temperature between 270 deg. and 300 deg.C. The bicarbonate is easily prepared in a pure state, and at the temperatures named the decomposition takes place according ...
— An Introductory Course of Quantitative Chemical Analysis - With Explanatory Notes • Henry P. Talbot



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