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NO! Borax powder is a cleaning agent (!) and is toxic in large doses - don't put it in any of your food. Baking soda is also known as "sodium bicarbonate" and is quite, quite different.
Borax is made with sodium borate. A&H uses sodium bicarbonate, or baking soda
Borax is sodium borate (also sodium tetraborate), the chemical composition being Na2B4O7
No. Sodium bicarbonate is a salt.
You can use soda ash (sodium carbonate), sold as pH Increaser, pH UP or Arm & Hammer Washing soda. You can also use borax, sold as 20 Mule Team Borax. Sodium bicarbonate, sold as baking soda, Alkalinity Increaser or Alk Up, will raise pool pH levels, but not very efficiently.
Borax
NO! Borax powder is a cleaning agent (!) and is toxic in large doses - don't put it in any of your food. Baking soda is also known as "sodium bicarbonate" and is quite, quite different.
No. Borax is sodium borate (Na2B4O7) baking soda is sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3)
Borax is made with sodium borate. A&H uses sodium bicarbonate, or baking soda
Borax is sodium borate (also sodium tetraborate), the chemical composition being Na2B4O7
No it is not. Borax and baking soda are two very different substances.
No, Sodium carbonate (Na2CO3) is washing soda. It is a stronger base (more alkaline) than sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3) or baking soda. Sodium bicarbonate may also be called sodium hydrogen carbonate.
sodium bicarbonate
Sodium bi-carbonateBaking soda is called sodium bicarbonate, or sodium hydrogen carbonate.
No. Sodium, or Na, is an element on the periodic table. Sodium bicarbonate is also known as baking soda and is a compound made of sodium, oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon.
Sodium bicarbonate is white.
Borax has two sodium atoms.