What are the bad effects of sodium carbonate?

Pharmacy/Chemistry/Sodium bicarbonate

• If you give sodium bicarbonate crystalls into water you will have sodium and carbonate present in dissolved form. In that form it has been used to treat patients with too much acid produced in the stomach as it is basic and neutralizes the acid. It has side effects as you take up more and more sodium and are likely to get kidney and other problems. Is it possible to separate sodium and bicarbonate from each other after dissolution in water? In other words, is it possible to have a solution containing only or primarily sodium and a solution containing only or primarily bicarbonate? Where can I buy a solution containing only or primarily bicarbonate and no sodium? Many thanks for your efforts!

• Answer:

  segnem-ga, Sorry to break the news, but there's no such thing as pure bicarbonate. The negatively-charged bicarbonate complex of atoms only exists in stable form in combination with other atoms, such as sodium, generally forming a chemical compound known as a salt. The closest you can come is probably club soda, which is carbon dioxide gas dissolved in water. Some of the CO2 reacts with the H2O to form carbonic acid. The chemical formula for carbonic acid is H2CO3, while bicarbonate is HCO3 (with a negative charge). Fisher Scientific is a well-known source of chemical supplies. As you can see from a product search for [ bicarbonate ] at their website: https://www1.fishersci.com/chemical/index.jsp Fisher Scientific there are quite a number of bicarbonate compounds, including: Sodium Bicarbonate Ammonium Bicarbonate Potassium Bicarbonate Cesium Bicarbonate Aminoguanidine Bicarbonate However, there is no offering for Bicarbonate on it's own. It only occurs in combination with other chemicals. This Wikipedia article on bicarbonate will give you a bit of background on the chemistry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicarbonate Bicarbonate and this article on the related substance, Carbonic Acid, contains even more detail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonic_acid Carbonic acid Note, in particular, the section here on "Instability of carbonic acid", which will give you an idea of the difficulty in bringing into existence some chemicals on their own. There is no common grocery-store source of bicarbonate that I am aware of, other than sodium bicarbonate, so you may be stuck with this compound as a source of bicarbonate ions, for the time being. I trust this information fully answers your question. However, please don't rate this answer until you have everything you need. If you would like any additional information, just post a Request for Clarification to let me know how I can assist you further, and I'm at your service. All the best, pafalafa-ga search strategy -- Google search on [ bicarbonate ]