[AJD] washing soda

[DAVID BRUCE]

>From what I know:
Washing soda is sodium carbonate (soda ash)
Baking soda is sodium bicarbonate
Chemically not the same and also washing soda was/is used for laundry but
it is not chemically the same as laundry detergents.  While laundry
detergents may contain soda ash they also contain various detergents and
usually some zeolites (silicate compounds used to replace phosphates).  It
is very rare to find any phosphates in detergents today as the phosphorous
contained within is blamed for "algae bloom" in lakes.
Washing soda (soda ash) is more alkaline than baking soda (sodium
bicarbonate).
You might be able to find the washing soda as sodium carbonate - I know
commercial quantities are available (50 lb. bags) but I don't know if
smaller amounts are easily available.

David
NW NC

> Hopefully somebody who understands chemistry will chime in here, but if
> not, this has been on one of the lists before and I recall that baking
> soda isn't an effective thing to use.
>
> B²
>
> Bill Brueck (brick)
> Chatfield, MN, USA
>
> Confusion is a higher state of knowledge than ignorance.
>
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>>I was having trouble finding washing soda for electrolysis cleaning so
>> I  contacted a chemical supply locally.  Got a good laugh from them and
>> they  told me I was unlikely to find listed as such.  Told me the same
>> thing was  now called laundry detergent.  To look for the cheapest soap
>> power that  listed sodium carbonate  as the main ingerdient and use it.
>>  Just be sure  it had no phosphates.  Found a 93oz box of Bright and
>> Clean at Wally world  for $2.79+ tx.
>> Works just fine.
>> Merle Wayne
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>>How about a box of arm hammer baken soda Kent Petersen
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