how do i make sodium acetate?

Question

i found that it could be done with vinager and salt orbaking soda is this true?

Answer 1

This is organic chemistry.

I am gonna guess here... but I would say you need to mix the baking soda and vinegar and then recrystallize.

Add a small amount of baking soda to a flask. Slowly add in little bits of vinegar at a time. It will fizz and bubble. Keep adding until the reaction ceases and you have an aqueous solution. Next recrystallize the solution ... I'm not sure which method of recrystallization would be best. Heck... just boil off the liquid and the sodium cation should rejoin the anion.

So mix and then dehydrate. Sounds good to me.
*shrug*

Answer 2

If you react distilled white vinegar with baking soda, you will indeed get a solution of sodium acetate. Vinegar is acetic acid, or CH3COOH. Baking soda is sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO3. When sodium bicarbonate is reacted with an acid, you carbon dioxide, then part of it reacts with the H in the acid to give water, and leaves a Na+ ion floating around, along with whatever anion is left over from the acid, in this case an acetate ion.

Thus, if you boil off the water, you should be left with relatively pure crystals of sodium acetate.

Answer 3

Baking soda and vinegar creates sodium acetate and CO2.

Answer 4

you should use baking soda and distilled vinegar.