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
Washing soda is the common name for a hydrate of sodium carbonate containing 10 water molecules; the systematic name is sodium carbonate decahydrate.
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
The bullion left in the retorts is then melted in black-lead crucibles, with the addition of small quantities of suitable fluxes, e.g. nitre, sodium carbonate, &c.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
