Re:What Coke Contains (2013)
by lpgauth on Friday September 19, 2014 @06:21PM
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I'm no chemist, but couldn't you just add a base to neutralize the phosphoric acid (e.g. calcium carbonate)?
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You would make a phosphate salt. Depending on its solubility, it may precipitate. Depending on the log K, your cola might no longer be acidic at all, and as others have suggested, not taste as nice, making the addition of both the phosphoric acid and calcium carbonate pointless.
2 H3PO4 + 3 CaCO3 -> Ca3(PO4)2 + 3 H2O + 3 CO2
The calcium phosphate phase listed above may not be the stable phase in cola solution at NTP, but is the simplest example.
How about intentionally adding a base that creates a very water-insoluble salt? Then the process is just 1) add base 2) filter 3) re-carbonate it, and you have non-acidic coke.
Re:What Coke Contains (2013)
by rectangletangle on Friday September 19, 2014 @08:07PM
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Yes, but it'd probably alter the flavor for the worse.
if you were interested in adding salt and water (the by products of a neutralization reaction) to the drink, then yes.
Salt? Sodium chloride? Or you mean the salt of phosphoric acid?
Re:What Coke Contains (2013)
by owenversteeg on Sunday September 21, 2014 @12:47AM
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A salt, not salt.
Salt: sodium chloride (NaCl, table salt, etc.) A salt: an ionic compound from an acid-base neutralization