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so'dium car'bonate

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1. Also called soda ash. an anhydrous, grayish-white, odorless, water-soluble powder, Na₂CO₃, usually obtained by the Solvay process and containing about 1 percent of impurities consisting of sulfates, chlorides, and bicarbonates of sodium: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, soaps, paper, petroleum products, sodium salts, as a cleanser, for bleaching, and in water treatment.
2. Also called sal soda, soda, washing soda. the decahydrated form of this salt, Na₂CO₃·10H₂O, used similarly.
3. the monohydrated form of this salt, Na₂CO₃·H₂O, used similarly, esp. in photography.

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