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How Does Baking Soda And Vinegar Create A Chemical Reaction?

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Lily James Profile
Lily James answered

If you mix baking soda with Vinegar, you are going to get an exothermic reaction. This is because when these two are mixed, the mixture rapidly expands to its original volume.

If the quantity of vinegar is more, it could also cause an explosion. Also heat is released as a result of this reaction.
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Vinegar is acetic acid: CH3COOH
Baking soda is sodium bicarbonate: NaHCO3

Mixing the two is simply and acid base reaction. When an acid and a base are placed together, they react to neutralize the acid and base properties, producing a salt.

CH3COOH + NaHCO3 ---> CH3COONa + H2CO3
That last product is carbonic acid which quickly decomposes into
carbon dioxide and water:
H2CO3 ---> H2O + CO2

The CO2 is what you see foaming and bubbling in this reaction.
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The experiment baking soda and vinegar is one of the most popular. However, it is deceptively simple: What appears to be one reaction is actually two, happening in quick succession.

What actually happens is the acetic acid (that's what makes vinegar sour) reacts with sodium bicarbonate (a compound that's in baking soda) to form carbonic acid. It's really a double replacement reaction.  Carbonic acid is unstable.  It iwll immediately breaks down to carbon dioxide and water.  The bubbles (from the reaction) come from the carbon dioxide escaping the solution that is left. Carbon dioxide is heavier than air, so, it flows almost like water when it overflows the container. It is a gas that you exhale (though in small amounts), because it is a product of the reactions that keep your body going.
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Sodium bicarbonate, the chemical name of baking soda, is an alkali, which reacts with the acid vinegar, to neutralize the 2 chemicals
Or, if you want to get technical.....
Sodium Bicarbonate (chemical NaHCO3) combines with the dilute Acetic Acid in vinegar, (chemical CH3COOH) to form Sodium Acetate, Water and Carbon Dioxide gas. The gas is released in the form of small bubbles. If the mixtures is strong enough and warm enough, it fizzes rapidly.
NaHCO3 + CH3COOH → CH3CO2Na + H2O + CO2 (gas)
In other words the salad dressing (vinegar) and the powdery stuff (baking soda) explode when they touch each other
Vinegar is acetic acid:  CH3COOH

Baking soda is sodium bicarbonate:  NaHCO3

Mixing the two is simply and acid base reaction. When an acid and a base are placed together, they react to neutralize the acid and base properties, producing a salt.

CH3COOH  +  NaHCO3  --->  CH3COONa  +  H2CO3
That last product is carbonic acid which quickly decomposes into
carbon dioxide and water:
H2CO3  --->  H2O  +  CO2

The CO2 is what you see foaming and bubbling in this reaction.
Lily James Profile
Lily James answered

Baking Powder and Vinegar are highly reactive with each other. If Baking Powder and Vinegar are mixed together, they cause an exothermic reaction.

This means that when vinegar is mixed with baking powder or vice verse, the resulting solution expands in volume and causes heat to release. That is why this mixture is usually used for making Volcano models in schools.
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Alana graham answered
The reason vinegar and baking soda fizz when mixed is because The vinegar and baking soda have some atoms in common. These cancel each other out. The left over atoms create water and a type of salt (not table salt) and carbon dioxide is released. This creates that fizz.
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Baking soda is Sodium bicarbonate, and vinegar is a dilute solution of Acetic acid.

When they combine, a chemical reaction occurs that gives water, carbon dioxide (the fizz), and sodium acetate.

Check out this website.

www.apple-cider-vinegar-benefits.com
Aisha Profile
Aisha answered
Vinegar is an acid and Baking Soda is a base. They form a chemical reaction that is exothermic in nature. Acids and base normally cause a reaction during chemical processing that is why there is a reaction when Baking soda and Vinegar combine. The result of this reaction is water, salt and carbondioxide. Carbondioxide causes fumes or vapors which can be seen.
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Apple cider vinegar and baking soda have other benefits as well apart from cleaning. They are easy to find and extremely beneficial to your health. The health benefits of this combination is miraculous and they should definitely be staples in your household. Apple cider vinegar and baking soda have the opposite pH. This means that they are alkaline and acidic respectively, so you can drink the mixture without harming yourself.

Some of the apple cider vinegar and baking soda benefits includes improving skin problems, fighting a number of allergies and cold symptoms, provides hydration and helps ease arthritis and pain etc.


Aisha Profile
Aisha answered
The reaction between Vinegar and Baking Soda creates a fizz. Actually when the two substances are mixed, they result in a chemical reaction. With this reaction, carbon dioxide gas is produced which results in a fizz.
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If you mix baking soda and vinegar together you are going to get a chemical reaction. The chemical reaction is that its is going to started to erupt and bubble and over flow
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Dave Cowles answered
Not Highly reactive but reactive. NaHCO3 is a weak base and vinegar has acetic acid in it. Combine the two and you get CO2 gas, water and Sodium Acetate and some heat. Going from memory here but pretty sure. Wear your safety googles.
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It blows up! What happens is that when Vinegar gets mixed with Baking Soda, They will produce Carbon Dioxide and will blow up or expand.
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I tried this before... Anyway it does not go everywhere it just fizzes because the acid(vinegar) reacts with the base(baking soda)and so it fizzes(cool eh)
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The vinegar and baking soda have some atoms in common. These cancel each other out. The left over atoms create water and a type of salt (not table salt) and carbon dioxide is released. This creates that fizz.
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The acetic acid, (vinegar) and sodium bicarbonate,(baking soda) react to make carbonic acid. The carbonic acid immediately splits into carbon dioxide and water. The bubbles are from the carbon dioxide escaping te solution that is left.
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The baking soda and vinegar have specific chemicals in them that do not mix so the release carbon dioxide.that is why it bubbles.
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The baking soda and vinegar makes a chemical change it forms into a explosion like a volcano. If you are doing a science project that has to do with mixing vinegar and baking soda you should make a volcano!
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Do you know the five clues of a chemical reaction? In none of the following appear, its just a physical reaction:

-The Change is Difficult or Impossible to Reverse
-Gas or Bubbles Are Produced
-A New Colour Appears
-A New Material is Produced
-Heat, Sound, Light. If you see any of these, it's probably a Chemical Reaction.
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The reaction to both cemic els make a fizz of bubbles that can be fun for kids but the smell is not Great then you think
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It creates sodium acetate which makes the bubbles and once they pop air comes out so get got it good lol
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I did this experiment as well ; it was hard , but I did a volcano ! I'm actually trying to find the answer myself.

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