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When sodium bicarbonate, n -a -h -c -o -3, is heated above 270 degrees, it decomposes into sodium carbonate from water vapor and carbon dioxide.
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So this is the equation from the reaction, and we need to balance it.
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So you see over here we only have one sodium.
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In here we have two.
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So let's go ahead and put a two right there.
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So we have two sodium on both sides.
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We have two hydrogen on the left side now, and we also have two on the right.
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We have two carbon, and right here we have one, two carbon, and we have six oxygen.
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So we have these six right here.
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We have three from sodium carbonate, one from water, makes four, and these two from carbon dioxide.
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It would be our balanced chemical equation for the decomposition of sodium bicarbonate...