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Bakinf Soda is sodium hydrogen carbonate or sodium bi-carbonate. (NaHCO3)

All carbonates under go thermal decomposition.

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Baking soda is sodium bicarbonate (or sodium hydrogen carbonate) and will undergo thermal decomposition when heated to give sodium carbonate, carbon dioxide and water (steam).

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