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...behind my other login, even if it is kind of nice to have a member number below 4000. So, in honor of my two-thousandth post with this name, I give you a true landmark.
Plus I'll answer questions if you've got any.
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sodium bicarbonate NaHCO3. sodium carbonate on the other had, Na2CO3, is commonly called washing soda.
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I think that's a safe assumption. Especially if you're OK with making an ass out of you and mption.
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I got lazy. And I decided that it was silly to try to hide from a landmark. If I don't feel like posting about it now, I won't, and I'll either wait until my next 1000 or until the muse strikes me.
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Hmmm, I came in here because I thought someone was playing hide 'n seek, and they were tired of hiding, and I was gonna tell them, hey, after an hour you should just stop hiding because they've probably given up looking for you.
Now, I've become confused because sodium bicarbonate has only one carbonate and the carbonate still has the minus two charge as an ion just like in sodium carbonate when it dissociates, so shouldn't it be sodium hydrocarbonate, or sodium bicarbonate should be the name given to Na4(CO3)2 (if it exists)?
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The bicarbonate ion is also called hydrogen carbonate. It can be thought of an the combination of a carbonate ion (2-) and a hydrogen ion (1+).
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