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It makes it rise :)

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To rize the dough

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Q: Why is carbon dioxide used for baking?
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When baking soda is mixed with vinegar carbon dioxide bubbles are formed in this reaction carbon dioxide is?

a substance used in any processes


What is the word equation when baking powder is heated?

When baking powder is used in baked products it produces carbon dioxide


What gas does baking powder give off?

Carbon dioxide, CO2


What gas is formed when you mix water and baking soda?

Carbon dioxide, or CO2, because of the decay of the carbonate group in the sodium bicarbonate (baking soda.)


What are the uses of carbon dioxide dioxide?

The following r the uses of carbon dioxide:- 1) carbon dioxide is used to produce aerated cold beverages. 2) carbon dioxide is used to produce dry ice. 3) carbon dioxide is used to extinguish fires. 4) carbon dioxide is used to make washing soda. 5) carbon dioxide is used to produce sodium bicarb(baking powder). 6) plants make their own food by using carbon dioxide.


How is carbon dioxide prepared?

baking soda and vinegar


What gas is baking powder made of?

carbon dioxide


What gas is produced when acid mixed with baking powder?

Water vapor is produced when baking soda and hydrochloric acid are mixed.


Yeast is used in baking as a leavening agent where it converts the fermentle sugars present in the dough in carbon dioxide. This causes the dough to expand or rise as the carbon dioxide forms pockets?

Yes


What do you need to know about yeast?

It is a fungi.It is used in baking,bear brewing(making alcohol).It does this by respirering anaerobicly that is with the abscence of oxygen.The product of these catabolic reaction is carbon dioxide and alcoholIn baking the main product is the carbon dioxide where as the alcohol is just a by-product.In beer brewing the main product is the alcohol where as the carbon dioxide is just a by-product.


What do baking soda and vineger have in common?

Baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) and vinegar (acetic acid) together are used in baking for dough rising by reaction to and development of carbon dioxide


What is the name of the chemical that baking powder contains?

carbon dioxide