Penrice's neatly packed, granular bicarbonate still appeals to fastidious customers in Japan, where it puts the fizz in bath salts.

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The caustic soda is then exposed to the power plant's exhaust, where it combines with carbon dioxide to create, over two steps, sodium carbonate and then sodium bicarbonate.

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The sodium bicarbonate is the third chemical to be sold.

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We get rice and beans three times a day, and it has a bicarbonate added to it to make the prisoners feel full, so I can't even eat this stuff.

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And then he dipped a horsehair toothbrush in a yellow box of bicarbonate of soda and assaulted his grimace in the spotted mirror hanging over the washstand, amusing himself by rhyming: Gerardus M.

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The government recently imposed fresh anti-dumping duties on Chinese imports of sodium bicarbonate, for example, at the request of Penrice Soda Holdings, Australia's sole producer of soda-ash crystals, which appear in everything from animal feed to antacids.

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