When vinegar and baking soda react, atoms rearrange to form sodium acetate (the salty and sour flavor in salt-and-vinegar-flavored potato chips), water, and carbon dioxide. Continue to project the ...

A mix of vinegar and baking soda is a popular DIY cleaner – but it’s really inefficient. A chemist explains why you should reconsider using this fizzy mixture.

Water, a surfactant, and an initiator (e.g., sodium persulfate) are mixed and heated. Vinyl acetate monomer (frequently called VAM in the industry) is added slowly, and the system is heated until the ...

Using a simple acid-base reaction between vinegar (HC2H3O2) and baking soda (HC2H3O2,) both acid and base are neutralized and a salt (in this case our vinegar powder, NaC2H3O2) is formed, along ...

When vinegar and baking soda react, they form a compound called sodium acetate. This chemical has a high freezing point, so in liquid form at room temperature, it is supercooled.

In the case of polyvinyl acetate, each repeating unit contains an acetate group. Borax, which is a white powder made up of sodium tetraborate, can react with this acetate group.

Sodium acetate! The rest of the elements from the carbonic acid reaction pair off and make H2O (water) and CO2 (carbon dioxide), which makes the bubbles you see.