"zxcvbob" > wrote in message
...
> Mr Libido Incognito wrote:
> > zxcvbob wrote on 25 Sep 2005 in rec.food.cooking
> >
> >
> >>I know. I was talking a bout washing soda, and wondering why it has
> >>disappeared from the markets.
> >>
> >>-Bob
> >>
> >
> >
> > AFAIK washing soda is just larger flakes of baking soda.
> >
>
> Nope, it's a different chemical. Washing soda (a.k.a. "soda ash") is
> sodium carbonate. Baking soda is sodium bicarbonate.
>
> Bob

Yup, just the one carbonate in washing soda (they make it from baking soda
but sell what's left over of that there carbonate to sparkling drinks
companies yaknow).





Shaun aRe
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