Most commercial sodium bicarbonate is produced by the Solvay process (ammonia-soda process), in which carbon dioxide is passed through a concentrated solution of sodium chloride (salt) and ammonia, causing sodium bicarbonate to precipitate as a solid. The compound is then filtered, purified, and dried. Sodium bicarbonate is also obtained by mining the naturally occurring mineral nahcolite in regions where it occurs in large underground deposits.
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