The name baking soda is familiar to everyone, baking soda as a common food additive, simple chemical reagents and cleaning products, closely related to our lives. Baking soda, also known as sodium bicarbonate, is an inorganic salt with a white color and no obvious odor. Easily soluble in water, high temperature or dissolved will produce carbon dioxide gas, water and sodium chloride, in case of acid will produce a strong neutralization reaction, resulting in the production of a large amount of carbon dioxide.
By understanding the characteristics of baking soda, people skillfully apply it to all areas of our lives, making great contributions to the food industry, fire protection, medicine and other fields. Baking soda, which plays different roles in different fields, is simply a polygon warrior. Let's take a look. What specific role does it have?
First, the role of baking soda
1. The role of baking soda in the food field
Baking soda can be used as a starter. Adding a little baking soda to the bread and cookie making process can help create gas that makes these foods softer and crunchier. In this way, consumers can enjoy a better taste while enjoying the food. Bubbles in soda and baking soda are inseparable. As a carbon dioxide generator, after addition, carbon dioxide can be generated in the beverage, which is the origin of bubbles in soda. In addition, baking soda can also promote starch gelatinization, making starch more easily mature, and alkaline starter culture can be obtained by compounding with alum.
2. The role of baking soda in medicine
The chemical name of baking soda is sodium bicarbonate, which can be double-decomposed with acid to produce precipitates, gases or water. Thus, baking soda neutralizes stomach acid, producing carbon dioxide, sodium chloride and water, which can be used to treat excessive stomach acid.
3. The role of baking soda in other fields
Baking soda is a raw material for acid making agents and can also be used as wool detergents and fabric dyeing treatment agents. In addition, baking soda is also very useful in filmmaking, tanning, mineral processing, smelting and metal heat treatment. In the field of fire protection, baking soda can be used to make alkaline fire extinguishing agents and foam fire extinguishing agents, safe, effective and fast.
Second, the magical effect of baking soda
1. Clean
Sprinkling a little baking soda on toothpaste when brushing can make your teeth whiter. When cleaning vegetables, add baking soda to keep the vegetables shiny and shiny, and the fried vegetables will be more verdant. Adding baking soda to your shoes can also make them cleaner and brighter. Baking soda is safe to eat, without worrying about contamination caused by chemical residues and will not burn the skin.
2. Remove cockroaches
Presumably, many southerners know that baking soda and sugar are mixed together one by one, placed in the corner of the kitchen, in the corner of the sofa, next to the sewer, etc. Cockroaches can be eliminated. In less than half a month, the cockroaches in the house will completely disappear.
3. Deodorization
Baking soda in the bathroom deodorizes, absorbs moisture and keeps the air dry. What should I do if my shoes have a peculiar smell after wearing them for a while? Don't panic, sprinkle a little baking soda at this time, the smell will disappear without a trace, and it can also play a role in bacteriostatic.
Third, the role of baking soda in the process of raising chickens
1. Detoxification
Sulfonamides used to prevent and treat coccidiosis in chickens have certain toxicity to chicken kidneys. Under acidic conditions, kidney stones are easily formed in chickens, causing chicken gout. At this time, 0.5% baking soda can be added to the feed, which can effectively prevent the formation of kidney stones, supplement the kidney and detoxify, and facilitate the discharge of toxic substances in the body.
2. Relieve the heat
During the high temperature season from June to August, the chickens drink more water, which speeds up the metabolism. The increase in the number of bowel movements leads to the loss of a large amount of electrolytes. As a sodium salt, baking soda can replenish electrolytes to muscle groups, thereby maintaining the acid-base balance in the body and relieving heat and cooling.
3. Stomach
Sodium bicarbonate and stomach acid produce a complex decomposition reaction, which can effectively neutralize excess stomach acid, reduce the burning sensation of the stomach caused by excessive stomach acid and the corresponding stomach diseases, and play a role in protecting and strengthening the stomach. The water, carbon dioxide and sodium chloride produced after the reaction are harmless to chickens, safe and healthy, and have no side effects.
Note: Baking soda is suitable for the hot summer months of June-August. Remember not to use it for a long time, otherwise it will lead to dysbacteriosis of the chicken intestinal flora, gastrointestinal diseases, and even the death of the flock.