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<p>[QUOTE="Nigel2017, post: 3270403, member: 100065"]<font size="3">Unfortunately this formula doesn't appear correct according to a tutorial on the ANCIENT COIN CLUB OF LOS ANGELES' website. The two major issues being that a) you don't know which form of sodium carbonate you are dealing with as it has five forms of hydrate depending on how it has been produced/stored and b) even if you did know, the formula would produce an approximately 19% solution. </font></p><p><font size="3">Therefore it makes much more sense to buy powdered sodium sesquicarbonate (which is cheap) and then simply add a convenient quantity to 19 times its weight of distilled water. I picked 1kg of sodium sesquicarbonate for £5/US$6 on ebay.</font></p><p><font size="3">Apparently this is the formula the British Museum in London uses.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Nigel2017, post: 3270403, member: 100065"][SIZE=3]Unfortunately this formula doesn't appear correct according to a tutorial on the ANCIENT COIN CLUB OF LOS ANGELES' website. The two major issues being that a) you don't know which form of sodium carbonate you are dealing with as it has five forms of hydrate depending on how it has been produced/stored and b) even if you did know, the formula would produce an approximately 19% solution. Therefore it makes much more sense to buy powdered sodium sesquicarbonate (which is cheap) and then simply add a convenient quantity to 19 times its weight of distilled water. I picked 1kg of sodium sesquicarbonate for £5/US$6 on ebay. Apparently this is the formula the British Museum in London uses.[/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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