How Much Carbon Dioxide Is Produced When Baking Soda And Vinegar Reacts?
The reaction: NaHCO3 + CH3COOH -> CO2 + Na + CH3COO- + H2O + H+ Baking soda is fairly basic and vinegar(5% Acetic Acid) when placed together create an acid base reaction. The reason we see a very vigorous, explosive, and foamy reaction is that we are trapping gaseous CO2 which is usually formed in an acidic environment. With respect to vinegar only 5% by volume reacts with Baking soda, so roughly 5% of the whole 1 to one 1 reaction has actually reacted. For instance. If 1 mole of baking soda and one mole of vinegar react than we produce 0.05 moles of CO2 gas. At STP 0.05(22.4L) = 1.12 liters of gaseous CO2, that’s really quite a lot!
