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What are the components in water based fire-extinguisher acids like $C H_{3} C O O H$ , $N a H C O_{3}$ and reaction releasing $C O_{2}$ .

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$H C O_{3}^{-} + H^{+} \to H_{2} O + C O_{2}$ .

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