Vinegar And Baking Soda Research

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What happens when baking soda mixes with vinegar? Will a reaction happen, and how do I know that one is happening? What models can I use to show this? What kinds of bond will form, and will the old bonds break? Baking soda is a solid, or you can say white crystals. It is known as a type of salt, and it is soluble. Baking soda is made out of carbonic acid too. The chemical formula for baking soda is NaHCO3. Vinegar contains acetic acid and water. It is a type of liquid. The chemical formula for vinegar is CH3COOH.
If I'm going to mix vinegar and baking soda together, will it be a mixture or a compound? Now, vinegar will be the solvent because it will be the substance that the solute will be dissolving in. Of course, the solute is baking soda, or the substance that will be put inside the larger substance. When I mixed them together, bubbles started forming and rising. What happened? Did a reaction happen? How do we know? Here is the chemical formula of the mixture: NaHCO3 + CH3COOH ­­­----> CO2 + H2O + Na+ + CH3COO-. As you can see, the molecules of the reactants: vinegar and baking soda, are found in the product. This means that the molecules and atoms in the reactants had rearranged and reform to make the new product. The acetic acid in vinegar reacts with the carbon dioxide to form sodium acetate and carbonic acid. The carbonic acid will then go under a decomposition reaction and for carbon dioxide. Since the carbonic acid had went through a reaction and turned into a gas, which leaves the sodium acetate solution. How do we know that carbon dioxide is formed? Well, the bubbles that come out during the reaction are the carbon dioxide escaping the solution as a gas.
How do we know that carbonic acid has formed? Well, the r...

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...l go under another reaction and form carbon dioxide gas and. The bonds of baking soda and vinegar will now break apart and form new bonds, or you can say, the product. A reaction has just happened because the product is different from the reactant, which includes the properties. Not only that but a gas was released or created during the reaction. The particles are now very loose from each other and is bouncing everywhere.
By using all these models and formulas, I am able to explain what happens when baking soda mixes with vinegar. After baking soda and vinegar mixes with each other, carbon dioxide and water have formed. A gas has been released in which it comes out in bubbles. Looking at the model above, it shows that the baking soda particles has lost attraction with each other and are now bouncing around and leaving the beaker as a gas, or carbon dioxide.

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