Is it safe to inhale biocarbonate of soda granules that are in water?

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When you drop granules of sodium biocarbonate in water you get great fizz and then air rises from the bubbles. I wonder if you can use the air as a gas for breathing, is this safe and possible?

I would love to hear your views on this

Many thanks in advance
 
I remember hearing rumours about people that strapped balloons to the top while it was fizzing and allowed it to fill with the gasses. The balloon became highly explosive by rubbing it against your head to charge it full of static electricity and then sticking it on a wall. Whoever tried to remove it from the wall would cause a static discharge that would ignite the balloon and BOOM! the whole house was gone. Fun stuff.






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I am not trying to invent anything, i wouldn't know where to start. But harnessing huge amounts of oxygen from the air and water has always surprised me. Scuba systems are already at an incredible stage in development. But i was looking more at how bicarbonate of soda could be used to create better oxygen supply systems for the medical sector. But from doing a search they already have such systems in place.
 
Raist said:
I remember hearing rumours about people that strapped balloons to the top while it was fizzing and allowed it to fill with the gasses. The balloon became highly explosive by rubbing it against your head to charge it full of static electricity and then sticking it on a wall. Whoever tried to remove it from the wall would cause a static discharge that would ignite the balloon and BOOM! the whole house was gone. Fun stuff.






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errmm, no - thats crap - carbon dioxide doesn't explode - someone has lied to you.

dvdbunny said:
I am not trying to invent anything, i wouldn't know where to start. But harnessing huge amounts of oxygen from the air and water has always surprised me. Scuba systems are already at an incredible stage in development. But i was looking more at how bicarbonate of soda could be used to create better oxygen supply systems for the medical sector. But from doing a search they already have such systems in place.
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and another big, errmm no - it gives off carbon dioxide - anybody who has done gcse's should know this - breathing it will only kill you.
 
dvdbunny said:
When you drop granules of sodium biocarbonate in water you get great fizz and then air rises from the bubbles. I wonder if you can use the air as a gas for breathing, is this safe and possible?

I would love to hear your views on this

Many thanks in advance
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Frankly, you should be ashamed :o
 
dvdbunny said:
I am not trying to invent anything, i wouldn't know where to start. But harnessing huge amounts of oxygen from the air and water has always surprised me. Scuba systems are already at an incredible stage in development. But i was looking more at how bicarbonate of soda could be used to create better oxygen supply systems for the medical sector. But from doing a search they already have such systems in place.
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it's carbon dioxide if you want oxygen you want electrolysis.

that or get your self some mercury.

You heat the mercury in air and it turns to a red power you then leave it to cool place it in (aghh i forget the name of the apparatus quite famous) basically a bottle (glass) with a tube leading from the to down to a bucket of water with an upside down beaker covering the tube (under the water and filled with water to catch the bubbles) then reheat your red powder in the bottle catch the bubbles in the beaker then you have a beaker full of pure O2 and your nice silver mercury back you can repeat t as many times as you like.

Of course i wouldn't recommend doing this do to the very toxic nature of mercury and it's vapor especially hen heating.

Electrolysis is far better.

Out of curiosity why are you dipping your bicarb in water when you get much more foam + gas and quicker if you dip it in vinegar?


Howw old are you, did you sit year 6 in primary school it's when you should have covered all this.

Oh and if you want to see what it's like if you did breath them in, go get an empty 2 litter lemonade bottle then stick your mouth on the end (the open one) and breath in then out so your only breathing whats in the bottle, try and do it for a minute :)
 
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my god a simple google will surfice instead of a whole thread!

the carbonate gives a clue - its simple chem this!
 
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