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1. Manufacturing process
1.1 Principle of the Solvay process
The Solvay process uses common salt, NaCl, and limestone, CaCO 3 , as raw materials. Ammonia NH 3 is involved in the manufacture of sodium carbonate, but cannot be considered a raw material since it is completely regenerated and recycled.
The process can be summarized by the global equation :
which, however, does...
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