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Can NaOH be produced from an aqueous solution of Na2CO3?
The same way an aqueous solution of NaCl can be used to produce NaOH and Cl2 through electrolysis, can an aqueous solution of Na2CO3 be used to produce NaOH and something else? Has this been done commercially? Thank you before hand.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
it can´t be produced in a aqueous electrolysis, because it will generate the electrolysis of the water.Igneous electrolysis will not work too. Using pyrolysis you will only melt the salt. I guess if you put Na2CO3 into water and heat this, you can maintain the NaOH (dissocied), and reduce the solubility of the CO2, so you will can get NaOH, however I think that the Na2CO3 dissociation constant is very low, so the process can take a long time
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