Baking soda is a/an:

acidic substance

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basic substance

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neutral substance

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none of these

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Solution

The correct option is A basic substance
Baking soda is sodium bicarbonate or sodium hydrogen carbonate. It has slightly salty, alkaline taste resembling that of washing soda. Its alkalinity in aqueous solution is because of formation of carbonic acid and hydroxide ion.
${H C O}_{3}^{-} + H_{2} O \to H_{2} {C O}_{3} + {O H}^{-}$

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