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Baking Soda Bloating
This is me showing the world how to blow yourself up using baking soda and cola. It’s kid of a painful and uncomfortable process; I don’t recommend it. So there you go: inflation by chemical reactions. Another good reason to read your Chemistry book is if you are hardcore into this stuff. 
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#3 written by LikeExpansion 2 years ago
In theory, it is possible. This is something I have not attempted myself. To answer your question, there IS a small, but subtle difference. Many times (but not always), the base of baking powder IS baking soda. It is generally mixed with an acid salt and an inert starch to make a neutral compound. The end result is such that the final compound has a chemical composition of NaHCO3 after the reactant gases have escaped at the time of manufacturing… see next comment…
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#4 written by LikeExpansion 2 years ago
Baking SODA however has a chemical composition of Na2CO3. The missing hydrogen destabilizes the compound to some extent. Once aqueous, water disrupts the carbonate bonds from the sodium, causing the baking soda to rapidly release CO2 gas. This is why baking soda will fizzle and bubble, while baking powder may not when they are wet.
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#5 written by Draco122 2 years ago
I’m seriously considering trying this, I have tried inflation before, mostly with air and water. However, like always I had problems with both lately. I’ve seem to lost the ability to inflate myself quite large with air and always get a sub-par result that I’m never happy with and water is sometimes a bit messy to do with present company.
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#6 written by Draco122 2 years ago
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#10 written by LikeExpansion 2 years ago
@philinator71
Referring to the chemical equation Na2Co3 (s) + H2O (l) —> NaOH (aq) + CO2 (g) + H2 (g) [unbalanced], we can see that for every certain number of moles of Na2CO3 we dissociate into water, we get an aqueous product of a hydroxide and two resulting gases. This production of gas molecules due to the reaction of the Na2CO3 compound and water molecules facilitates a rapid release of gas. Carbonic acid expedites this reaction at an even faster rate. -
#11 written by LikeExpansion 2 years ago
@brashbeatniks
In order for the reaction to be optimized, a large quantity of the Na2CO3 compound must be used. Furthermore, the compound must be made aqueous by applying a generous volume of liquid to it. Using cola is by far the best way simply because it contains both water and aqueous CO2 (carbonic acid). This combination causes abnormally more than usual gas molecules to be produced. The golden rule: You must ingest an unpleasantly large volume of this substance in one setting. - Comment Feed for this Post
that was great! I thought about it and then I tried it.
WILD Bloat!!