Baking soda and Hydrochloric acid Question?

Question

I'm doing an experiment on making rockets out of film canister with baking soda and hydrochloric acid, I need a disussion of the science ideas behind my experiment. I'm guessing I should give a chemical equation.

Anyone know the chemical equation of hydrochloric acid and baking soda? - A description of it would be great!

Also It would be great if you could say what else it produced through the reaction.

Thanks :)

Answer 1

NaHCO3 + HCL = NaCL + H2O + CO2

The reaction is exothermic ie. it gives out heat during the process.

Answer 2

Baking soda is basically bicarbonate soda, so NaHCO3, and hydrochloric acid is HCl,

You'll get NaCl (aq) + CO2(g) +H(g) I think.

Answer 3

Baking soda is NaHCO3, sodium bicarbonate (now known as sodium hydrogen carbonate)

The reaction is:

NaHCO3(s) + HCl(aq) --> NaCl(aq) + H2O(l) + CO2(g)

This is an exothermic reaction as all neutralisations are.  This means that it gives out a lot of energy.

There's a short video of something like it here:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TiZNj-0PGM...

When carbonates react with acid, they fizz.....this is the carbon dioxide coming off.