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Artlav
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What is being produced in electrolysis of water with baking soda (NaHCO3) dissolved in it, and carbon electrodes?
Seems to be an extremely simple question, but every place i google up have a different answer.
In practice, there is hydrogen on the cathode - it burns - but on the anode i get some unknown gas.
It does not smell of anything - neither the itchy smell of CO2, nor fresh smell of oxygen, and i can't seem to get any reaction from a lit match.
So, what is happening in there?
Second question - what is happening in the water?
One place i read that it would slowly turn into NaOH solution - would that actually happen?
Seems to be an extremely simple question, but every place i google up have a different answer.
In practice, there is hydrogen on the cathode - it burns - but on the anode i get some unknown gas.
It does not smell of anything - neither the itchy smell of CO2, nor fresh smell of oxygen, and i can't seem to get any reaction from a lit match.
So, what is happening in there?
Second question - what is happening in the water?
One place i read that it would slowly turn into NaOH solution - would that actually happen?