How can baking soda be converted into baking powder?

Adding nitric acid

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Adding hydrochloric acid

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Adding sulphuric acid

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Adding tartaric acid

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Solution

The correct option is C Adding tartaric acid
Baking soda when mixed with acid specifically tartaric acid converts baking soda into baking powder. Tartaric acid is to neutralise sodium carbonate and cake will not taste bitter. The real reactions are more complicated because the acids are complicated.
For example starting baking soda and monocalcium phosphate is proposed to react to produce carbon dioxide by:
$14 N a H C O_{3} + 5 C a (H_{2} P O_{4}) 2 H_{2} O$ $\to$ $14 C O_{2} + C a_{5} (P O_{4}) 3 O H + 7 N a_{2} H P O_{4} + 18 H_{2} O$

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