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Re:Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010) by xaviex on Sunday January 02, 2022 @09:13PM (#29776556)
Not an onomatopoeia but Sodium Citrate, which is used to create cheese that melts Into a smooth consistency, is na3c6h5o7 or NaCHO.
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Re:Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010) by kragen on Sunday January 02, 2022 @11:08PM (#29777236)
That would be NaOC(CO2H)(CH2CO2H)2, though, not NaCHO. NaCHO2 is sodium formate. NaCHO would involve deprotonating formaldehyde to get a CHO- ion you could make a sodium salt of. This might be possible, but definitely not in water.
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