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

[dvdbunny]

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

 

[dvdbunny]

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.

 

[dvdbunny]

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

Thank you for the most excellent post. I am not actually dipping anything. I have no plan to try any such experiments but I just find it very interesting reading about such things. There are a lot of very talented minds out there and it's nice to read what's going on in the world today.

So dipping in vinegar is actually better then.

I have been quite interested in Scuba diving for many years but haven't really tried it. I read on google something about rebreathers that use crystalline granules that clean the carbon dioxide that you breath out and remake it into breathable oxygen. The idea of the rebreather is to recycle the air you breathe so you can stay underwater longer. This is all quite fascinating.

with electrolysis of water, do you use bicarbonate of soda is their no need. Do you know if you can do electrolysis using vinegar or is that too dangerous. It is quite exciting, I should have paid ore attention at school in the chemistry lab.