Sodium carbonate Wikipedia
Sodium carbonate (also known as washing soda, soda ash and soda crystals) is the inorganic compound with the formula Na 2 CO 3 and its various forms are white, odourless, watersoluble salts that yield alkaline solutions in water. Historically, it was extracted from the ashes of plants grown in sodiumrich soils, and because the ashes of these sodiumrich plants were noticeably ...