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This is the second addition to the Making the Bestest Sugared Drink. The first addition was introducing Citric acid (Adding Some Kick to Making the Bestest Sugared Drink} to give a "sour" taste to the sugared drink.
Now, we are going to add in Sodium bicarbonate (Baking soda), Na2(HCO3)1 (solid form), to the drink. However, Sodium bicarbonate reacts with the Citric acid to produce an acid and the salt in a double replacement reaction. Write the balance equation below:
Remember, the Citric acid (H3C6H5O7)is called triprotic acid since 3 of H are used as H+ and the other 5 do not).