How does baking soda eliminate odors?
Chemistry For Your Life
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Is There a Specific Type of Acid?
Lewis: I think for me and maybe a couple of people, it's like the idea of thinking about acids revolving around hydrogen only seems like, I don't know, they're not all specifically revolving around hydrogen. So back to our smells in our baking soda. We have always said baking soda is a base. And baking soda is, it's got a positive charge sodium, but then it's also negatively charged. It reacts very strongly to get a proton. When it does gain a proton, there's one more negative charge and that molecule has been replaced by Sodium bicarbonate or sodium hydrogen acid. That's what we've done with this episode at yep. Yes
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