Sodium Bicarbonate

Sponge rubber, gold and platinum plating, treating wool and silk, fire extinguishers, oil well drilling mud, prevention of timber mold, cleaning preparations, lab reagent. It is a source of carbon dioxide, paper industry, environmental technologies. In veterinary medicine, it is also used locally for burns and erythema, and to dissolve mucus, exudates and scabs. It is used to soften and remove ear wax, as an eye lotion, to clean contact lenses, as a vaginal douche and to treat metabolic acidosis caused by cardiac arrest.