sodium sesquicarbonate

noun

: a crystalline acid carbonate Na₂CO₃.NaHCO₃.2H₂O or Na₃H(CO₃)₂.2H₂O that occurs in nature as trona or is made synthetically from sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate and is used chiefly as a detergent

—not used systematically

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