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Crystallization of homemade sodium acetate

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When you mix baking soda with vinegar, what you're really doing is reacting sodium hydrogen carbonate (more commonly, sodium bicarbonate) with acetic acid. Those components react, producing sodium acetate and carbonic acid; the carbonic acid immediately decomposes into carbon dioxide gas and water.

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