How to Use sodium carbonate in a Sentence

sodium carbonate

noun
  • This was all made through free-form blowing of sodium carbonate glass of Roman origin.
    — Jane Levere, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Shotaro Uchida prepares a mix of water, sodium carbonate and sea salt to make ramen dough.
    — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Workers would extract sodium carbonate in the lake so it could be sold as a chemical additive.
    — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Ancient Egyptians made the deep and bright blue color with sand, sodium carbonate, or ash and mixed it with copper minerals or pieces of bronze.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • This stuff works with pretty much all washing machines, getting rid of odors and mildews with tablets of sodium percarbonate and sodium carbonate.
    — Billy Cadden, Popular Science, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The hours-long process begins by mixing water, sea salt and sodium carbonate, or kansui, which makes ramen noodles alkaline and gives them their springy texture.
    — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Most significantly, the researchers discovered sodium carbonate, which is often found in dry, salty lake beds on Earth.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 29 Jan. 2025
  • How changing the pH – adding alkaline salt, such as sodium carbonate, could completely alter the structure of pasta or noodles.
    — Science & Food, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2013
  • Researchers believe the bright spots are highly reflective sodium carbonate crusts, which were left behind when salty liquid emerged on the surface and evaporated.
    — Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Baking soda water only contains significant amounts of sodium and ash or sodium carbonate.
    — Chelsea Rae Bourgeois, Rdn, Ld, Health, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Instead, they are made with natural ingredients like baking soda, sodium carbonate, and pure essential oils.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Upon reaching the surface, the water rapidly boiled away in the near-vacuum conditions, leaving behind the sodium carbonate and other salts.
    — Scott Hershberger, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2020
  • The proportion of magnesia in inlays and window glass from Samarra’s palaces suggests plant ash, rather than natron, as the source of sodium carbonate in the glassmaking process.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2018
  • Along with the sodium carbonate, the ceramic support contains a conducting material such as carbon nanotubes.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2022
  • Look for detergents that contain ingredients like sodium carbonate or sodium citrate, which are known to be effective at softening water.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Drinking glasses may be much simpler to make—requiring not much more than sand and sodium carbonate plus some relatively basic machinery—but China is not about to stop there.
    — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2020
  • These include sodium carbonate, ferrous, sodium hydrogen, sulfur, salt and hydrogen sulfide springs.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The first compound the team discovered in the Bennu sample was sodium carbonate, which had never been observed before in any other asteroid or meteorite.
    — Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 29 Jan. 2025
  • The Nature study points out that the dwarf planet Ceres and Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus have also shown evidence of sodium carbonate brines in recent years.
    — Ella Jeffries, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Jan. 2025
  • These eye-catching characteristics were discovered to be sodium carbonate, or a compound including oxygen, carbon and sodium.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Aug. 2020
  • The site produces materials such as boric acid, sodium carbonate, sodium sulfate and several specialty forms of borax used in soaps and other industrial materials.
    — Alejandra Reyes-Velarde, latimes.com, 5 July 2019
  • Neither the primary materials of sand and soda ash (sodium carbonate) nor the firewood for the medieval Venetian glassmakers were found in the city’s immediate vicinity.
    — Aki Ishida, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The main ingredient is sodium percarbonate, a combination of sodium carbonate — also known as washing soda (a laundry aid) — and hydrogen peroxide.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2019
  • The company has developed an alternative refining method using sodium carbonate and lime instead of heavy sulfuric acid and other chemicals that generate undesirable byproducts.
    — Jeremy Beaman, Washington Examiner, 9 May 2023
  • Alternatively, dishwasher detergents that contain ingredients such as citric acid, sodium carbonate, and sodium bicarbonate can help reduce the risk of etching by neutralizing the alkaline effects of hard water.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
  • And last year a demonstration plant in San Antonio began capturing CO2 from a cement plant and converting it into minerals and chemicals, including sodium carbonate, hydrochloric acid and bleach.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Sep. 2015

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