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What will happen when baking soda { Sodium Bi Carbonate } is added to Vinegar / Acetic acid ? What would happen if lime water / citric acid is poured to baking soda ? Please give me the answer through a brief note and Scientific equations.
Mixing vinegar and baking soda causes a chemical reaction where the vinegar produces an unstable acetic acid that immediately breaks down into carbon dioxide and water.

Baking soda and vinegar react together and release a gas.  The chemical reaction is:
CH3COOH (acetic acid) + NaC3H2O2 (sodium bicarbonate) ? NaC2H3O2     (sodium acetate) + H2O (water) + CO2 (carbon dioxide gas)
The carbon dioxide being released causes the reaction to bubble.


When baking soda and lemon juice are added together, a chemical reaction occurs. The reaction of the two is an acid-based reaction because it involves an acid (citric acid in the lemon juice) reacting with a base (sodium bicarbonate, more commonly known as baking soda). We can write this reaction as follows:

C6H8O7 + 3NaHCO3 <---> Na3C6H5O7 + 3H2CO3

In other words, a molecule of citric acid reacts with three molecules of sodium bicarbonate to form a molecule of sodium citrate and three molecules of carbonic acid. Although an acid is reacting with a base, this is not a neutralization reaction. In a neutralization reaction, the products are water and salt; lemon juice is a weaker acid and baking soda is an organic salt. If you were to measure the pH of a solution containing the products, it would be lower than 7 (acidic).


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