The caustic soda is then exposed to the power plant's exhaust, where it combines with carbon dioxide to create, over two steps, sodium carbonate and then sodium bicarbonate.

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The sodium bicarbonate is the third chemical to be sold.

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The government recently imposed fresh anti-dumping duties on Chinese imports of sodium bicarbonate, for example, at the request of Penrice Soda Holdings, Australia's sole producer of soda-ash crystals, which appear in everything from animal feed to antacids.

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