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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bicarbonate of soda
noun
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▪ Beat in the coffee and when the mixture is creamy and light, add the bicarbonate of soda and the chopped walnuts.
▪ Dissolve the bicarbonate of soda in a little water and add to the mixture.
▪ Folk recipes to try: take a lukewarm bath with two cups of cider vinegar or some bicarbonate of soda added.
▪ If hand washing, add bicarbonate of soda to the wash and lemon juice to the rinse.
▪ If toothpaste is too strong, you could rinse with bicarbonate of soda dissolved in warm water.
▪ Next day put them in a saucepan with the same water, plus a half teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda.
▪ Sift the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt into a large bowl. 2.
▪ Water during a fast nauseated him and he accordingly would add a pinch of salt or bicarbonate of soda.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
bicarbonate of soda

Sodium bicarbonate \Sodium bicarbonate\, a white crystalline substance, HNaCO3, with a slight alkaline taste resembling that of sodium carbonate. It is found in many mineral springs and also produced artificially,. It is used in cookery, in baking powders, and as a source of carbonic acid gas (carbon dioxide) for soda water. Called also baking soda, cooking soda, bicarbonate of soda, bicarb, saleratus, and technically, acid sodium carbonate, sodium acid carbonate, primary sodium carbonate, sodium dicarbonate, etc.

Wiktionary
bicarbonate of soda

n. sodium bicarbonate

WordNet
bicarbonate of soda

n. a white soluble compound (NaHCO3) used in effervescent drinks and in baking powders and as an antacid [syn: sodium hydrogen carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, baking soda, saleratus]

Usage examples of "bicarbonate of soda".

Now, with the taste of that synthetic chocolate in my mouth, I don't want anything except a glass of warm milk and later on a little bicarbonate of soda.

You mean that when I was swearing to Len and old Colin that the stuff was morphine sulphate or tartrate or whatever it was, it was merely bicarbonate of soda all the time?

What if this bicarbonate of soda fallout is doing something to people's digestion?

Plain old bicarbonate of soda will make you belch if a belch is required, and that was Doc's main ingredient.

Miss Conover gave him two aspirin and a tablespoon of bicarbonate of soda.

In a country where the bourgeoisie over-eat so that their stomachs are all ruined and they cannot live without bicarbonate of soda and the poor are hungry from their birth till the day they die, why wouldn't he be tubercular?

In a country where the bourgeoisie over-eat so that their stomachs are all ruined and they cannot live without bicarbonate of soda and the poor are hungry from their birth till the day they die, why wouldn’.

The bicarbonate of soda trick hadn't worked, the captain told Nelson ruefully.

It would be a mercy to put him out of his misery, though the blow to the bicarbonate of soda industry might cause a sag in the stock-market.

From the cabinet over the sink he took the package of bicarbonate of soda.