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Preparation and Properties and Uses of Potassium Hydroxide

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Since baking soda is basic in nature how is it used in to have faster cooking?

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It makes the cooking faster by decomposing into sodium carbonate. The reaction will be :
2NaHCO₃ $\to$ Na₂CO₃ + H₂O + CO₂

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