What happens when water is added to sodium bicarbonate

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Darwin Spence

15 January, 01:03

What happens when water is added to sodium bicarbonate

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Douglas Nielsen · Answer 1

Sodium bicarbonate (or baking soda) will cause both exothermic and endothermic reactions when added to water. It becomes either unstable or stable carbonic acid, which will eventually become CO2. The reaction would be exothermic is when H2CO3 (Carbonic Acid unstable) is formed and endothermic is when CO2 is.