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bicarb

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for bicarb.

Editorial note

However, the Precautionary Principle applies here for me: saline and bicarb just mimic the chemistry inside your nose.

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Quick take

(informal) Bicarbonate.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

(informal) Bicarbonate.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for bicarb.

noun

(informal) Bicarbonate.

Example sentences

1

However, the Precautionary Principle applies here for me: saline and bicarb just mimic the chemistry inside your nose.

2

The great thing about the bicarb style ones is that he can actually play with the ingredients.

3

If you swap bicarb with sodium carbonate (washing soda) you literally have dishwasher detergent that might be a bit foamier.

4

For pure citric acid and bicarb you want something like 45.7% citric acid by weight.

5

You want 47.5 parts lemon (or 51.7 parts lime) to 1 part bicarb by volume.

6

Bake your own bread, get some bicarb-soda from the natural side of life, ingest it regularly instead of a trucked-in consumer-ingredient.

7

For a lot of us, its a huge duh that bicarb is good for you.

8

Buy a tub of sodium bicarb and put it in an old shampoo bottle.

9

But you can also buy the regular saline-bicarb powder on Amazon, thank God.

10

Bicarb is less soluble and thus acts as a very mild abrasive, but powder detergents usually are similarly abrasive, though I can't find any hard sources saying bicarb is completely safe.

11

Your bicarb should be dry to make sure you weight it properly.

12

Elemental sodium in the air spontaneously oxidises to sodium hydroxide which is nasty and caustic but the hydroxide layer spontaneously forms bicarb which is comparatively harmless.

Quote examples

1

If you have a gap in what you’re gluing, don’t do any of this “sprinkling bicarb soda on it” nonsense unless you only have superglue and bicarb soda.

2

We had "skeletons" for reporting the most common labs in notes - just a graphic representation so you didn't have to write "Sodium 139, potassium 4.3, chloride 122, bicarb 24, BUN 9, creatinine 1.1, glucose 85".

3

I, a dumb consumer, conflated my singular experience with actually-using a fire extinguisher (which was full of sodium bicarb, and this was important to determine immediately after use because food was involved nearby, on a holiday, with lots of people to feed) to actually-extinguish a fire one time many years ago with the contents of the AFO fireball "percussive fire alert" widget that I have in the printing room.

Proper noun examples

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Bicarb reverses that acidosis, it doesn't cure it, but it does make it so your epi and other drugs have a chance to work.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use bicarb in a sentence?

However, the Precautionary Principle applies here for me: saline and bicarb just mimic the chemistry inside your nose.

What does bicarb mean?

(informal) Bicarbonate.

What part of speech is bicarb?

bicarb is commonly used as noun.