No, Faith. Baking soda (US) is bicarbonate of soda, or sodium bicarbonate. Washing soda is sodium carbonate, a step or two away from bicarb. It got a mention in the text on the pages whose links I posted. There was a description on one of the sites, I think the steam engine one, saying what the process was to make the sodium bicarbonate. The paragraph on my previous post said: Washing soda is a mixture of mostly sodium carbonate decahydrate with some sodium sesquicarbonate and sodium bicarbonate in it. For a more mundane explanation, unless you understand the technical jargon on the websites, you might need to enquire at your local shopping centre, though I think someone said washing soda was getting hard to find.
It's a white powder, or in crystal form, that people use to soften water. If you google washing soda IMAGES you will see some packages that may ring a bell with you. Or not, if you are not over 55 and female. R I've never heard of 'washing soda'. Do yuo mean baking soda? Faith G. -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
