sodium carbonate

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The Met's Cdr Jon Savell said a laboratory analysis of the substance from the attack site found it was a "very strong concentrated corrosive substance, either liquid sodium hydroxide or liquid sodium carbonate".

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2024

The two carbonates used commercially in the largest quantities are sodium carbonate and calcium carbonate.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

He’s something of a health nut who avoids chemicals, even such harmless ones as sodium carbonate.

From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2016

In ancient Egypt, a paste made out of honey, sodium carbonate, and crocodile dung was a popular form of contraception.

From Time • Jan. 23, 2015

Consider, for instance, a fragment of calcium chloride immersed in a solution of sodium carbonate.

From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane